Pentagon Considers Using TikTok, Illegal Immigrants To Solve Military Recruitment Problems
Micaela Burrow - Yesterday 12:49 PM
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The Pentagon is reportedly considering using TikTok as a recruitment platform and reaching out to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients to bolster the military’s lagging recruitment rates in 2022, NBC News reported Monday.
The Pentagon is scrambling for solutions to the military’s ongoing recruitment crisis, U.S. officials confirmed to NBC. The Army has been hit the worst, having reached only 40% of its annual recruitment goals nine months into the fiscal year, according to data obtained by NBC.
One reported solution allows recruitment officers to utilize the Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok, which former President Donald Trump attempted to ban from the U.S. in 2020 over fears the Chinese government could exploit personal data obtained through the app. The Biden administration announced a national security review of TikTok, but one year later, it has not announced any new updates to the inquiry, Reuters reported Friday.
“The Services are experiencing a very difficult recruiting market and continue to explore the best tools/levers to meet these challenges,” a Pentagon spokesman told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
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