No posts, no likes: Army’s new Instagram rules for officers explained

The Indian Army recently changed its social media guidelines to allow its personnel to sign up on Instagram. As per the revised guidelines officers can only join the popular social media platform as ‘passive observers’ without putting up posts or comments on the platform, PTI reported citing sources on Thursday.

According to the PTI report, the move aims to better familiarise the Army officers with the “misinformation tactics popularly used in the digital age of information” and guard them against any potential or inadvertent leak of sensitive information.