Facebook Increases Restrictions on Taliban
Facebook has increased restrictions on the Taliban on its social networking site. In the latest move, when Facebook users search for names of Taliban members on the social network, they are issued warning messages stating that the search is related to dangerous organisations.
Facebook has warned users of restricting or blocking their accounts if the company’s policies are violated.
Facebook had previously suspended a number of Taliban-controlled media accounts. Meta Facebook’s parent company had told Afghanistan International during its earlier move that the closure of Taliban media pages on Facebook and Instagram was due to the fact that the Taliban is a sanctioned terrorist group in the United States.
The company had said that it will block all pages related to the Taliban group based on its policy on dangerous organisations.
After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, the accounts of a number of Facebook users were blocked due to the publication of pictures of the Taliban or the presence of the word Taliban in the texts.
Meta Platforms Inc. the parent organization of Facebook considers the Taliban a terrorist group and has banned the activities of this group on the company’s platforms.
