Faced with a rise of extremism within its ranks, the US military has clamped down on racist speech – including retweets and likes

Less than a month after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin took the extraordinary step of pausing all operations for 24 hours to “address extremism in the ranks .” Pentagon officials had been shaken by… [7479 chars]