Facebook Suspends Taliban-Controlled Media Pages According to Its Policy

Facebook’s anti-Taliban coverage continues to stay agency because the social media platform suspended pages of the Taliban-controlled Afghanistan National Television and Bakhtar information company. The pages of Afghanistan National Television and Bakhtar information company are not accessible, reported Khaama Press, including that because the Taliban seized management of Afghanistan National Television’s media centre, they performed in depth media actions. However, the pages of this media centre and Bakhtar information company are presently inaccessible.

According to the pinnacle of Afghanistan National Television, Ahmadullah Wasiq, Facebook has banned the Pashto and Dari pages of this media group.

Facebook is without doubt one of the most generally used social networking websites worldwide and was the primary to call the Taliban as a terrorist group following their takeover in mid-August, 2021, Khaama Press reported.

The social media platform perceives the Taliban as a “terrorist organization” and has banned the publication of any content material created by or supporting this group on its social media platform, the report added, citing sources.

Notably, the pages of Taliban-controlled authorities companies in war-torn Afghanistan on the social networking website have been beforehand shut down by Facebook.

According to a Facebook spokesperson, the social media platform enforces its anti-Taliban coverage on all of its platforms, together with Facebook itself, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

Taliban officers and spokespersons are lively contributors on Twitter as properly.

The Afghan media group continues to face overwhelming challenges underneath the brutal regime of the Taliban.

Numerous organizations have been pressured to close down as a result of financial collapse, threats and draconian reporting restrictions because the Islamist outfit got here to energy.

Thousands of journalists and media professionals, particularly ladies, have misplaced their jobs.

The survey, performed by IFJ-affiliate Afghanistan National Journalists Union (ANJU) throughout 33 provinces, reveals 318 media have closed since 15 August 2021. The disaster has hit newspapers the toughest with simply 20 out of 114 persevering with to publish. 51 TV stations, 132 radio stations and 49 on-line media have ceased operations in keeping with the report compiled for the IFJ.

72 p.c of those that have misplaced their jobs are ladies, IFJ stated in a launch.

As per the report, launched by United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), human rights violations affected 173 journalists and media employees, 163 of which have been attributed to the de facto authorities.

Among these have been 122 situations of arbitrary arrest and detention, 58 situations have been of ill-treatment, 33 situations of threats and intimidation, and 12 situations of incommunicado detention. Six journalists have been additionally killed in the course of the interval (5 by self-identified ISIS Khorasan, one by unknown perpetrators).

According to some media-supporting organizations, over 70 p.c of media shops halted their operations because the Taliban got here to energy.