Social media big Facebook has mentioned that it has banned the Taliban and all content material supporting it from its platforms because it considers the group to be a terrorist organisation, in response to a media report. The corporate says it has a devoted staff of Afghan specialists to observe and take away content material linked to the rebel group.
For years, the Taliban has used social media to unfold its messages.
“The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organisation beneath US legislation and now we have banned them from our providers beneath our Harmful Organisation insurance policies. This implies we take away accounts maintained by or on behalf of the Taliban and prohibit reward, help, and illustration of them,” a Fb spokesperson instructed the BBC.
“We even have a devoted staff of Afghanistan specialists, who’re native Dari and Pashto audio system and have information of native context, serving to to determine and alert us to rising points on the platform,” the spokesperson mentioned.
The social media big mentioned it doesn’t make selections concerning the recognition of nationwide governments however as an alternative follows the “authority of the worldwide neighborhood”.
Fb highlighted that the coverage applies to all of its platforms, together with its flagship social media community, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Nonetheless, there are stories that the Taliban is utilizing WhatsApp to speak. Fb instructed the BBC that it could take motion if it discovered accounts on the app to be linked to the group.
The brutal battle in Afghanistan reached a watershed second on Sunday when the Taliban insurgents closed in on Kabul earlier than getting into town and took over the presidential palace, forcing embattled President Ashraf Ghani to flee the nation.
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