Nearly half of employees at FEMA used their social media accounts while on the job, according to the results of a government investigation that found some even consumed what Homeland Security called “racially charged porn.”

Secretary Kristi Noem announced the findings Tuesday, saying she had fired the porn-peepers.

“These individuals had access to critical information and intelligence and were entrusted to safeguard Americans from emergencies—and instead they were consuming pornography,” she said.

She said one of the cases involved someone looking at “bestiality” as well as the race-tinged materials.

One contract employee at the Federal Emergency Management Agency viewed Reddit, a popular social media platform, 578 times during a 30-day period. He viewed explicit sexual materials from his work-issued devices and engaged in explicit chats on his government computer.

Another employee, at the department’s Insider Threat Operations Center, used a chatbot to enter “sexually charged phrases” and have them read back in an accent.

Homeland Security said its investigations revealed that “almost half” of FEMA’s employees “regularly log into social media platforms while performing their taxpayer funded duties.”

• Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.