Taliban officials and supporters have been buying blue ticks on free speech warrior Elon Musk’s Twitter. According to a BBC investigation, at least two Taliban officials and four prominent su…
, at least two Taliban officials and four prominent supporters are currently using the service, which Musk took over in October.
Neither were verified as official accounts by Twitter’s pre-Musk system and the BBC also listed a number of prominent Taliban supporters who have recently acquired the blue tick. The news may be demonstrative of a flood of newly-verified Twitter users who are using the platform to espouse harmful ideologies.
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