The US military is still struggling to figure out social media
“You will not be able to win the wars of the future … if you can’t even figure out how to operate in the information space.”
BY HALEY BRITZKY | PUBLISHED NOV 2, 2022 12:55 PM
While the Defense Department released a new social media policy just a few months ago, experts say the military doesn’t have a good enough understanding of the social media space, or the ability to work quickly, in order to be successful there.
“You will not be able to win the wars of the future, whether it be against Russia and China or domestic actors seeking to aid them by aping their messages and undermining recruiting, if you can’t even figure out how to operate in the information space,” Peter Singer, a strategist at New America and the co-author of LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, told Task & Purpose.
The Pentagon released a department-wide policy on social media use for the first time in August, which mainly applied to military public affairs professionals and official military accounts. Among the directives is a requirement for new platforms to be reviewed and approved by the Defense Information Systems Agency’s DoD Application Vetting Environment before public affairs and social media managers can use them.
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