Facebook confirms banning all Taliban-related content

Posted on August 17, 2021August 17, 2021
by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Facebook has confirmed it considers the Taliban a terrorist organisation, and so bans the group and all content supporting it from its platforms.

The firm says it has a dedicated team of Afghan experts to monitor and remove content linked to the group.

Facebook highlighted that the policy applies to all its other platforms including Instagram and WhatsApp.

However, there are reports that the Taliban is using Whatsapp to communicate. Facebook told the BBC that it would take action if it found accounts on the app to be linked to the group.

Rival social media platforms like Twitter and YouTube have also come under scrutiny over how they handle Taliban-related content.

-BBC

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An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

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