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Ron Johnson: “There are 46,000 overt ISIS support accounts on Twitter…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson on MSNBC's Morning Joe

Published | Video Starts at 00:58

We're going to have a hearing on this, not this particular attack, but on, we're calling it jihad 2.0 and how ISIS is inspiring people using social media. We're going to have witnesses that are going to be talking about There are 46,000 overt ISIS support accounts on Twitter alone. That's the best guess, possibly as high as 90,000. So how do you keep track of that? Of course, this is how ISIS makes connections with people that are supporting it. (00:58–01:07)

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