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

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

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.

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.

ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.

ISIL, AQ, now have the ability to literally reach into our homeland through social media, through the Internet, to recruit and inspire. It makes for a more complicated homeland security environment. And so it requires a whole of government approach, not just military and law enforcement, homeland security, aviation security, and the like.

ISIL are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes - for radicalisation, for operational planning, too.

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