S.Amdt. 1884

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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