For outsiders the importance here is not that "the US" has decided that ISIS is its number one problem, but that those in charge of domestic homeland security see ISIS in the continental USA as being a far bigger problem that Al-Qaeda cells. ET Comey was speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in Aspen, Colorado, when he said the threat from ISIS had eclipsed that posed by the group that was once led by Osama bin Laden. The US government and media have been very careful to avoid using the term "terrorist" or even "Islamic State" for fear of alienating Muslims who are already suspicious about what they perceive as an American attempt " This is a significant shift in the FBI's focus, and the mention regarding social media will have meant domestic-US social media traffic, not international traffic.
For outsiders the importance here is not that "the US" has decided that ISIS is its number one problem, but that those in charge of domestic homeland security see ISIS in the continental USA as being a far bigger problem that Al-Qaeda cells. The US government and media have been very careful to avoid using the term "terrorist" or even "Islamic State" for fear of alienating Muslims who are already suspicious about what they perceive as an American attempt " This is a significant shift in the FBI's focus, and the mention regarding social media will have meant domestic-US social media traffic, not international traffic.