Taliban leader endorses Elon Musk's Twitter, accuses Mark Zuckerberg's Threads of having an 'intolerant' policy on free speech
But Meta's launch this week of Threads, a text-based social network built off Instagram, poses the most formidable threat to Twitter yet, with the app gaining more thansince its launch less than a week ago, according to the data-tracking platform Quiver Quantitative.
It is unlikely that members of designated terrorist groups will ever find a platform on Threads. Meta has banned the Taliban from Facebook, with limited exceptions, and has sought to kick off Taliban membersMembers of the Taliban began joining Twitter in earnest back in 2020 to reach an international, English-speaking audience, with a member of the groupthat they did not want claims about them from Afghanistan's prior, internationally recognized government to go unchallenged.
"The Taliban wanted to counter their propaganda and that's why we too focused ourselves on Twitter," the Taliban member said."Social media is a powerful tool to change public perception." Some members of the Taliban were at one point verified, or given blue checks. After Musk took over Twitter, he made blue check marks available for purchase, doing away with verification and removing them from anyone's account that didn't pay, whether or not they had been previously verified.
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