Pentagon admits funding online propaganda war against Isis

The Pentagon has admitted it enlisted PR firms to combat the Islamic State’s propaganda machine on social media, according to a report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
An investigation into the departments PR spend found that it, between 2006 to 2011, paid $540m to British PR firm Bell Pottinger to, among other things, create fake al Qaeda propaganda videos that could track viewers across the web.
Following this, the Pentagon has admitted it is also channeling its PR