Social media is the greatest threat to US service members
Jeff Schogol
Oct 25, 2020 9:08 AM EDT
Forget Russia or China: The biggest threat to the U.S. military today comes from social media, which provides limitless opportunities for service members to abruptly end their careers by doing something stupid.
While this phenomenon is not specific to one particular military branch, the Army seems to be the Typhoid Mary of America’s ongoing social media stupidity pandemic.
In the past week, Fort Bragg’s official Twitter account posted obscene material. A spokesman for the 18th Airborne Corps initially said the Twitter account had been hacked. (Narrator’s voice: It wasn’t.)
TikTok in particular appears to be the Army’s Kryptonite. Two soldiers with the Michigan Army National Guard were recently disciplined for making a video in which they called liberals and Democrats “crybabies†and “snowflakes.†(As it turns out, their battalion commander is also under investigation for allegedly espousing conspiracy theories on his private Facebook page.)
https://taskandpurpose.com/pentagon-run-down/social-media-greatest-threat-troops
