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 for the reason that Taliban seized management of Afghanistan National Television’s media centre, they carried out intensive media actions. However, the pages of this media centre and Bakhtar information company are at present 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 among 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 businesses 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 energetic contributors on Twitter as properly.

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

Numerous organizations have been pressured to close down attributable to financial collapse, threats and draconian reporting restrictions for the reason that Islamist outfit got here to energy.

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

The survey, carried out by IFJ-affiliate Afghanistan National Journalists Union (ANJU) throughout 33 provinces, exhibits 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 based on the report compiled for the IFJ.

72 % of those that have misplaced their jobs are girls, 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 staff, 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 through the interval (5 by self-identified ISIS Khorasan, one by unknown perpetrators).

According to some media-supporting organizations, over 70 % of media shops halted their operations for the reason that Taliban got here to energy.