WASHINGTON — Experts with the Rand Corp. suggested in a new report that the U.S. military use technology to track online trends and work with local law enforcement agencies to stamp out extremism within its ranks.
Rand, a nonprofit think tank, published a report Thursday that offered a framework for identifying and extricating extremists from the military. The report noted multiple, recent instances of service members engaging in violent protest, including the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., and the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
At least five service members face federal charges for allegedly participating in the riot, during which a mob that sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election stormed the Capitol and disrupted a joint session of Congress.
“The vast majority of military personnel and their families are not extremists,” according to the authors of the Rand report. “But even a small number of people engaged in extremist activities could damage the U.S. military’s reputation, its force, its members and the larger community.”
One method that Rand recommended was using machine-learning technology to spot online trends of extremist groups targeting the military community. Using artificial intelligence, the military could create models that would detect extremist communities on social media and see whether they’re targeting service members with misinformation and trying to recruit them.
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