Hegseth's Memo Explicitly Deletes Diverse Content

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Military was instructed to search keywords including ‘first’ and ‘history’ during rushed purge of Pentagon websites

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Pentagon memo ordered all diversity, equity and inclusion-related content to be removed from Pentagon websites was so vague that units were instructed to simply use keywords like “racism,’ “ethnicity,” “history” and “ first ” keywords were suggested by an internal defense agency to help units comply with the directive, officials said.

A Pentagon spokesman said the effort “was an arduous but incredibly important undertaking”.

The time and resources that have been spent on deleting websites and images has struck officials as at odds with Hegseth ’s stated focus on returning the focus of the military to “lethality” and “warfighting” Another defense official said the department is now planning on doubling back and going through the content again with “human beings” to conduct a more thorough review.

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