article_snippet: Even the U.S. State Department admits ISIS propaganda prowess "is something we have not seen before.
article_snippet: we are seeing 90,000, I think, tweets a day that we're combating.
article_snippet: The U.S. government is trying to step up The U.S. government efforts to counter ISIS propaganda by beefing up a small State Department agency to make it the heart of the fight against the militants' messaging.
article_snippet: Several anti-ISIS efforts are already in place.
article_snippet: And U.S. State Department official Richard Stengel said an anti-ISIS messaging campaign has helped prevent youths from joining.
article_snippet: "an anti-ISIS messaging campaign're reading the messages, an anti-ISIS messaging
article_snippet: campaign're hearing the messages -- not just from CNN but from the hundreds of Islamic clerics who have said that this is a perversion of Islam, from the hundreds of Islamic scholars who have said the same thing," U.S. State Department official Richard Stengel said in October.