Problems:
- Underfunded
- Difficulty in reaching audience
- The difficulty remains that much of the target audience of the current Think Again Turn Away account already has such a strong anti-American bias that it will likely take much more than an American government-sponsored Twitter account to sway their opinion.
- Policy is difficult
- Benjamin
- Plans for the future?
- Washington Post
- Rise of ISIS in general
- Ability to make terror appealing online
- Ability to release a lot of material in many languages
- ISIS on Twitter
- ISIS on other sites
- Creation of CSCC
- TATA Twitter
- TATA Twitter helps spread IS sentiment
- TATA Twitter is embarrassingly inaccurate
- TATA Twitter may serve as an attractant rather than deterrent
- TATA Twitter may be an emotional deterrent
- TATA Twitter may be good simply because it puts counter-material out there
- TATA YouTube
- Failure of “Welcome to the ‘Islamic State’ Land”
- TATA Ask.fm
- Conclusion
- Backfire effect
- Embarrassing
- Pointless
- Not really paid attention to besides for its flaws
- Maybe hope, maybe good to put out there
- Hopeless
- Underfunded
- Misguided
- “Don’t argue with a moron”
- Difficult for State Department to compete “lure is strong”
- Daniel Benjamin discussion
- “To tell the truth, I don’t think we’ve learned a lot from this experience”
- “I also don’t think there has been a serious conversation about what one achieves through messaging, as opposed to other kinds of intervention, such as counseling. It’s a very difficult area of policy.”
- Big Picture Think Again Turn Away
- Very limited resources/budget
- ABC News
- Washington Post – compare w/ that of Pentagon
- Own guy says could be doing more
- NPR
- Don’t argue with a moron
- NPR
- Conclusion – is this effort hopeless?
- Difficult for State Department to compete “lure is strong”
- Washington Post
- NPR
- Just a mole hill
- NPR
- Creation of Information Coordination Cell and end of TATA
- Washington Post
- Plans for the future – Washington Post panel article
- Difficult for State Department to compete “lure is strong”
- Very limited resources/budget