Scandal in the ranks of the US Army, via a private Facebook group. Yesterday, the Center for Investigative Reporting has published a report revealing that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has launched an investigation into hundreds of Marines after discovering a secret Facebook group used to post nude photos of women services.
The report, written by Thomas Brennan, founder of a nonprofit news agency called The War Horse, revealed that images of servicewomen shared on a private Facebook group called Marines United, either posted on the site itself , or through links from a folder in the Google Drive. The group consists of approximately 30.000 members, and was originally founded in 2015.
It is open only to male members of the US Marine Corps, Navy and British Royal Marines. According to a description by a retired mariner at Reddit, this particular Facebook group has a history of this type of content, with “photos of girls posted without their permission, revenge porn, rape, racist comments and more.”
Brennan's post emphasizes that the images or links posted to the group have attracted more than 2.500 comments, some of which urge for more photos. In some cases, the images are accompanied by information about their "subjects", such as names, rank and what they serve.
From TheVerge.
