Propaganda Fight Against IS Must Expose Lies, Lawmakers Told

Combating Islamic State and other successful propagandists cannot be done by matching them tweet for tweet because that only validates their messages, a Defense Department official told U.S. lawmakers Thursday. Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Lumpkin told a panel of the House Armed Services Committee that U.S. efforts to counter adversarial propaganda must “expose contradictions and falsehoods for audiences who often have different perceptions and cultural norms than our...

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