The US military is set to conduct a sweeping audit of its clandestine psychological warfare operations, amid concerns the Pentagon has used fake social media handles to manipulate foreign audiences, several sources told the Post.

The US undersecretary of defense for policy, Colin Kahl, has ordered military commands to offer a “full accounting” of their psychological warfare activities within a month’s time, according to a Monday Post report, which cited multiple unnamed administration and Pentagon officials familiar with the matter.

“The message was essentially, ‘You have to justify to me why you’re doing these types of things,’” one official said, describing Kahl’s directive.

The order was reportedly prompted by concerns at the White House over “the Defense Department’s attempted manipulation of audiences overseas” using social media, and comes after Twitter and Facebook removed some 150 fake accounts said to be involved in “covert influence operations.” The takedowns were revealed by researchers at Graphika and the Stanford Internet Observatory, which published a report highlighting online networks allegedly pushing “pro-Western,” anti-Russia and other politicized narratives.