Taliban Endorses Twitter Over Threads

Anas Haqqani, a senior leader in the Taliban, has officially endorsed Twitter over Facebook-owned competitor Threads.

“Twitter has two important advantages over other social media platforms,” Haqqani said in an English post on Twitter. “The first privilege is the freedom of speech. The second privilege is the public nature & credibility of Twitter. Twitter doesn’t have an intolerant policy like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it.”

Twitter has fallen out of favor with many people since Elon Musk took over the company last year…The Taliban, however, seems to love it. Two Taliban officials even bought blue verification check marks after Musk started selling them in January.

Haqqani noted that the biggest draw of Twitter was this lax moderation policy…Facebook and TikTok both view the Taliban as a terrorist organization and disallow them from posting. It’s a ban that persists to this day.

Decimit,

Terrorists like Elon Musk. That seems like his plan.

xc2215x,

This is not a good look. The Taliban supporting something is never good.

NevermindNoMind,

Twitter, the only social network endorsed by the Taliban and caturd! What’s not to love?

G_Wash1776,
@G_Wash1776@lemmy.world avatar

The Taliban were one of the first groups to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

damnYouSun,

I’m surprised the Taliban want to be associated with something so toxic.

yanyuan,

What? No! That’s fine. Here, have a delicious and refreshing can of Wolf Cola!

GentlemanLoser,

Official soft drink of Boca Raton!

SatyrSack, (edited )

I never saw an ounce of puss!

vlad76,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Wolf Cola everyone. The right cola. For closure.

DaughterOfMars,

This is what I come to the comments for

MxM111,
MxM111 avatar

Well, it depends on what do you wish for Twitter.

Silverstrings,
@Silverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Funnily enough they also endorsed Trump before the 2020 election.

kokesh,
@kokesh@lemmy.world avatar

They support only the best.

c0mbatbag3l,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

It’s the Taliban, the appropriate action is to ignore everything they say because they’re religious extremists who commit violent actions against random citizens of their own and other nations.

I they said Twitter was bad and endorsed Threads would you still give a shit? lol

AFKBRBChocolate,

A handful of years ago, US Republicans were losing their shit over Muslims and the Taliban, basically saying they were the biggest threat. I’m honestly waiting for them to realize that their views are almost completely aligned with the Taliban’s. Both against abortion and LGBTQ rights, both want religion in schools and to get rid of the separation of church and state, etc. It doesn’t at all surprise me that Republicans and the Taliban have the same preferred social media.

CyanFen,

Just like how people you can’t stand the most just subconsciously remind you of yourself, republicans can’t stand the taliban because it’s like looking in a mirror for them.

afraid_of_zombies,

People who fully agree can still hate each other. Maybe even more likely too since they occupy the same social niche.

FinalBoy1975,

It makes no sense but it makes sense to the general public. When it ceases to make sense to the general public, it will be seen as you and I see it. I’m not holding my breath until the general public figures this out. You really can’t fix dumb and uneducated. It’s what politicians count on. Your dumb and uneducated vote manipulated by key terms thrown out there and reproduced in whatever media you like and is willing to send to you.

c0mbatbag3l,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

That’s because they’re both authoritarians.

It’s the same reason Tankies hate Nazi’s when they’re both essentially the same thing in practice despite their economic outlooks being opposite. Authoritarianism is authoritarianism, everything else is just a different flavor.

Christian authoritarians think they’re good and muslim’s sharia law bad, but in reality they’re just two religions trying to force their shit on everyone else. They physically cannot see that it’s the same because to them it’s “morally correct” and therefore not authoritarianism.

Hank,

This is like the always sunny episode where Boko Haram endorses Wolf Cola.

Trollmittens,

The Talliban accusing a company (Meta) of having intolerant policies is perhaps the most insanely hypocritical thing I’ve heard. I love it! “They don’t tolerate our intolerance”

K0W4LSK1,

Lol the leader of the taliban looks like a French designer

Aesecakes,
@Aesecakes@lemmy.world avatar

This ruins my analogy of Meta federating with Activity Pub being like the Taliban promising to be good guys this time round.

jray4559,

Ah, yes, I was waiting for the Taliban to tell me which one of these two online clusterfucks to start using.

I’m surprised they even care about Twitter, wouldn’t they want to be underground?

SoLongThx4TheFish,

They are governing Afghanistan, why wouldn’t they have a Twitter?

Plus, even ISIS used Twitter (and maybe still does?). It’s a good propaganda tool.

ChaoticEntropy,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

Do they also drink Wolf Cola?

carbotect,

The Internet is a mistake.

easterner,

I mean, total clickbait article but hilarious nontheless.

UpperBroccoli,

But the real question is: which platform would Hitler use?

…not that I’d expect the answer to differ.

GewoehnlicherHamster,

Twittler?

Shardikprime,

Mein Vook

Ktheone,

This may seem surprising, but Parag Agarwal, the Twitter CEO before elongated muskrat had a history of supporting isis views from his old tweets (there was a whole news article on it that has sadly been deleted). Really twitter CEOs have been fucked up politically since the beginning.

Shardikprime,

Yeah I read this and was like is this new?

AlmightySnoo, (edited )
@AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world avatar

Not that this changes anything but it’s worth noting that the Taliban were provided a platform on Twitter even before they took power and before even Elon acquired it.

Right now Facebook is also full of hate-speech by Islamists who circumvent hate-speech filters by writing in Arabic or Parsi, as Meta’s AI in those languages is a complete failure, very biased as it’s trained on hateful content already as laws in those countries favor hate-speech (as an example, in Saudi Arabia being an atheist is considered “terrorism” and in most MENA countries homophobic content is normal) and moderators are sourced locally and hence also very biased.

There’s a disturbing trend of big tech being comfortable hosting extremists and borderline terrorist spokespeople. And my unpopular guess is that it is obviously because the US wants the Taliban and other Islamist groups to be legitimized. Why? I’m not sure, geopolitics is totally above my pay grade. But it is clear that historically the US had no issues siding with hardcore Islamists in the MENA region and right now there is a clear trend to normalize Islamist propaganda online.

Reminder that the Taliban are still preventing girls from going to school since they took over, despite a certain president assuring us that the US isn’t abandoning Afghan women and that the Taliban have “changed” anyway, and they cracked down on female university students too.

MercuryUprising,

They’re okay with it because it looks good for the bean counters and KPIs. There’s no KPI for “we removed hate speech visibility by 50%” but there is one for “we got 50 million new users from MENA on our platform to show ads to.”

SCB,

Why is Facebook not beholden to the countries in which it provides service to provide the service those countries and people prefer?

Your problem is with those countries and people, not with social media.

dudebro,

You should just be able to block the people you don’t want to interact with.

Trying to censor them is unnecessary and childish.

afraid_of_zombies,

We are enabling them with technology they had no hope to ever develop themselves and using said technology to actively support their thuggish way of life.

Tell me you would let the women in your family live there.

dudebro,

Err… what? What makes you think they couldn’t develop this technology themselves?

Just be honest. You don’t like what others have to say and neither should anyone else. Own it. Don’t beat around the bush. People will take you more seriously if you’re genuine.

afraid_of_zombies,

Because they are a theocratic despotic thugcracy that is why their only export is refugees and opium.

And why don’t you answer my question? Would you approve of the women in your family being sent there? Yes or no.

SCB,

How does not wanting my family (or myself - not sure why you made it sexist) to live there at all relevant?

If you want the world to declare unilateral war on authoritarian despot nations I’m all for that, but as I recall that view seems to be “Imperialist.”

How do you square these feelings in your head?

afraid_of_zombies,

Answer the question.

SCB,

I wasn’t the person you asked, but I am in favor of everyone who wants to escape any authoritarian state to be able to leave.

In fact, I am for the free movement of people as a natural right, coupled with absolute open borders, defended with military force by a coalition of world governments.

I am strongly anti-authoritarian. I just don’t see how it is Facebook’s responsibility to effect change in hostile nation-states.

MercuryUprising,

“We should let actual terrorists communicate and radicalize others, because there’s a block button already. PS: I’m very smart.”

dudebro,

Lol, nice hyperbole.

Nobody with a brain takes comments like your seriously.

Rufio,

How is that hyperbole? That’s essentially what you are suggesting lmao

dudebro,

No it’s not.

Brush up on your reading comprehension.

Try to understand things even if you don’t like them. That’ll make you less biased.

Rufio,

Nah if that’s not what you meant you need to work on your writing skills bud.

Try to understand what you are trying to say before writing it, even if you don’t like it. That will make you less likely to be misunderstood.

dudebro,

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    MercuryUprising,

    How could you possibly know that?

    carbotect,

    You either censor them or you let them radicalize people. There is no inbetween.

    Do you see this differently?

    dudebro,

    Free speech is free speech.

    People are free to believe what they want and share what they want.

    Sorry this upsets you.

    carbotect,

    No need to apologize, I understand your viewpoint. I don’t understand your “Lol, nice hyperbole” comment tho.

    "We should let actual terrorists communicate and radicalize others, because there’s a block button already. PS: I’m very smart.” <— Isn’t that exactly what you believe in then?

    Willer,

    Talibussy

    kokesh,
    @kokesh@lemmy.world avatar

    I think the Dear Leader KJU should also hop on the Musk train.

    mrXYZ,

    Ah train you say… so when is the hyperloop Kabul coming ??? ;-)

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