One social-media “like” may be grounds for punishment under the Pentagon’s new anti-extremism rules—but it’s far from certain that a single click would trigger an investigation or, really, say much useful at all.
On Monday, Defense Department officials outlined several lines of effort that the Defense Department took to get at the problem of extremism in the ranks, including re-examining the department’s insider threat program and screening procedures for recruits. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that continuous monitoring of social media “was not the intent” of the new policy and that the government didn’t have the ability to monitor “private” social media.
One Social-Media ‘Like’ Doesn’t Say Much About a Potential Extremist – Defense One
