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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

We're dealing with an enemy now, ISIS, that has a very sophisticated social media program.

Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.

ISIL's widespread reach through the Internet and social media is most concerning, as the group has proven dangerously competent at employing such tools for its nefarious strategy. ISIL uses high-quality, traditional media platforms as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its extremist ideology.

Social media campaigns and the savviness of ISIS and propaganda is what greatly concerns us Homeland Security officials.

Some of the people involved in ISIS are going to Iraq, and some of our young people are being radicalised through the Internet.

Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.

Many in the U.S. military believe ISIS needs to be immediately, and repeatedly, smashed by American drones and warplanes.

Social media has allowed groups, such as ISIL, to use the Internet to spot and assess potential recruits. With the widespread horizontal distribution of social media, terrorists can identify vulnerable individuals of all ages in the United States - spot, assess, recruit, and radicalize - either to travel or to conduct a homeland attack.

As a communication medium, social media is a critical tool for terror groups to exploit.