[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 91 (Tuesday, June 9, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S3938]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1884. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle G of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 1283. MESSAGING PLAN FOR THE INTERNET TO COUNTERING 
                   VIOLENT EXTREMISM ABROAD.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) Violent extremist groups abroad increasingly use social 
     media and other information technologies to intimidate, 
     recruit, radicalize, and raise funds.
       (2) The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has 
     expertly exploited social media to spread its propaganda, 
     intimidate its opposition, raise money, and recruit others 
     into its ranks.
       (3) The United States strategy to defeat the Islamic State 
     of Iraq and the Levant must include a campaign to counter 
     digital media to degrade and defeat the social media 
     propaganda and recruitment networks of the Islamic State of 
     Iraq and the Levant.
       (4) This effort must include the empowering of moderate 
     local voices and other non-United States attributed messaging 
     to challenge the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant through 
     a coordinated and integrated Government-wide strategy online.
       (b) Messaging Plan.--The Secretary of Defense shall, in 
     coordination with the Secretary of State, the Director of 
     National Intelligence, the Broadcasting Board of Governors, 
     and other appropriate public and private sector stakeholders, 
     develop and implement a coordinated messaging plan for the 
     Internet, including elements described in subsection (a)(4), 
     to counter propaganda and recruitment media disseminated by 
     the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and associated 
     violent extremist groups abroad.
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