American Quote by Peter Bergen

“Telegram is a secure, encrypted chat, audio, and file sharing program for mobile phones that quickly became the preferred ISIS communications application. In September…

— Malcolm Nance

Telegram is heavily encrypted and privacy-oriented, but we're no friends of terrorists - in fact, every month we block thousands of ISIS-related public channels.

— Pavel Durov

In America they started to refer to Telegram as 'ISIS's preferred messaging app,' But in reality there are many more legitimate users.

— Pavel Durov

ISIS uses traditional media platforms as well as widespread social media campaigns to propagate its ideology. With the broad distribution of social media, terrorists…

— Christopher A. Wray

Law enforcement has seen an unprecedented use of social media by ISIL. They're just kind of flooding the airwaves.

— Dana Boente

Social media serve as the propaganda machine of 21st century terror, and this is apparent in the Middle East.

— Lee Zeldin

Think of it as the military doing a spectacular hack as opposed to blowing things up. The internet allows ISIS to have a secure…

— Dina Temple-Raston

ISIS is using the internet to recruit. ISIS is using the internet to intercept and do all sorts of things to our country. We…

— Donald Trump

One thing Telegram does is make mass surveillance impossible.

— Pavel Durov

As far as Paris goes, we don't know for sure yet how these guys communicate among themselves and how they communicated back to the…

— Michael Morell

“One effort that ISIS employs consistently is devoted to maintaining a level of operational security that at least successfully eludes the surveillance of intelligence…

— Malcolm Nance

Today, 90% of terrorist activity on the Internet takes place using social networking tools, be it independent bulletin boards. The most important terrorist communiques…

— Evan Kohlmann