4. Department of Defense · Notable
Restrict military social media use and discipline personnel who engage critics
Printed page 104 4. Department of Defense
“Restrict the use of social media solely for purposes of recruitment and discipline any armed services personnel who use an official command channel to engage with civilian critics on social media.”
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No restriction on official military use of social media. Searched: the FY2026 NDAA for "social media" (0 occurrences); the FY2026 defense appropriations act; the Federal Register full-text API for Department social media policy documents since 2025-01-20; the whitehouse.gov presidential-actions Corpus; the bills Corpus. Nothing found. Department of War policy pages that might carry a public affairs instruction return HTTP 403.
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Research notes
Nothing on any allowlisted source restricts official military social media to recruitment or disciplines personnel for engaging civilian critics from a command account.
This item sits in the page 103–104 personnel cluster, whose shared instruments are EO 14151, EO 14183, the FY2026 NDAA titles V, VI and IX, and the Secretary of Defense’s 2025 personnel memoranda — nearly all of which live on Department of War pages that refuse automated reads. One negative search covered the whole cluster.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- official military use of social media
- ID
- 174