$1.3 Billion Later, Government Can’t Tell If It’s Beating ISIS At Propaganda (Daily Caller News Foundation)

$1.3 Billion Later, Government Can’t Tell If It’s Beating ISIS At Propaganda (Daily Caller News Foundation)

The committee overseeing the federal government’s “Twitter war” against terrorist propaganda admitted on Thursday that despite nearly $1.3 billion dollars in annual programming, it cannot measure the success of those efforts.

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Iran’s New Approach to Twitter (Wonkistan)

Iran’s New Approach to Twitter (Wonkistan)

That little blue check mark next to Javad Zarif’s name is a very big deal. So is that tweet from Thomas Erdbrink. Let us explain why.

Official access to Twitter and Facebook became heavily restricted in Iran following the 2009 reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the street protests that followed, disputing the results. Then in this year’s election, Hassan Rouhani and other presidential candidates relied heavily on social media to get their messages across.

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