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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3654 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
DECEMBER 17, 2015 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To require a report on United States strategy to combat 
terrorist use of social media, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Combat Terrorist Use 
of Social Media Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. REPORT ON STRATEGY TO COMBAT TERRORIST USE 
OF SOCIAL MEDIA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall 
transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a re-
port on United States strategy to combat terrorists’ and 
terrorist organizations’ use of social media. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The report required by subsection 
(a) shall include the following: 
(1) An evaluation of what role social media 
plays in radicalization in the United States and else-
where. 
(2) An analysis of how terrorists and terrorist 
organizations are using social media, including 
trends. 
(3) A summary of the Federal Government’s ef-
forts to disrupt and counter the use of social media 
by terrorists and terrorist organizations, an evalua-
tion of the success of such efforts, and recommenda-
tions for improvement. 
(4) An analysis of how social media is being 
used for counter-radicalization and counter-propa-
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ganda purposes, irrespective of whether or not such 
efforts are made by the Federal Government. 
(5) An assessment of the value of social media 
posts by terrorists and terrorist organizations to law 
enforcement. 
(6) An overview of social media training avail-
able to law enforcement and intelligence personnel 
that enables such personnel to understand and com-
bat the use of social media by terrorists and ter-
rorist organizations, as well as recommendations for 
improving or expanding existing training opportuni-
ties. 
(c) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
should be submitted in unclassified form, and may include 
a classified annex in accordance with the protection of in-
telligence sources and methods. 
SEC. 3. POLICY AND COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY TO 
COUNTER TERRORISTS’ AND TERRORIST OR-
GANIZATIONS’ USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall 
transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a re-
port that contains a comprehensive strategy to counter 
terrorists’ and terrorist organizations’ use of social media, 
as committed to in the President’s 2011 ‘‘Strategic Imple-
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mentation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to Pre-
vent Violent Extremism in the United States’’. 
(b) FORM.—The report required by subsection (a) 
should be submitted in unclassified form, and may include 
a classified annex in accordance with the protection of in-
telligence sources and methods. 
SEC. 4. APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES DE-
FINED. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on the Armed Services, the Committee on 
Homeland Security, the Committee on the Judiciary, and 
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, the Com-
mittee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 
the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Select Committee 
on Intelligence of the Senate. 
Passed the House of Representatives December 16, 
2015. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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