Facebook bans content related to Taliban

After the Talibani capture over Afghanistan, Facebook has announced its ban on all Taliban-related content that supports the insurgents, on their platform as the Group is a terrorist organization. Facebook is hiring an expert and dedicated team of Native Afghans to monitor and remove content linked to the Taliban.

Taliban has been using social media to spread its agenda for years now and currently, the situation of the rapid takeover of Afghanistan raises new and fresh challenges for tech firms in order to deal with the content posting with relation to the Group.

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"The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under US law and we have banned them from our services under our Dangerous Organization policies. This means we remove accounts maintained by or on behalf of the Taliban and prohibit praise, support, and representation of them," a Facebook spokesperson told the BBC.

"We also have a dedicated team of Afghanistan experts, who are native Dari and Pashto speakers and have knowledge of local context, helping to identify and alert us to emerging issues on the platform."

The social media giant said it does not make decisions about the recognition of national governments but instead follows the "authority of the international community".

Facebook applies its policy to all its social media platforms as the Taliban is active in its propaganda mainly through WhatsApp.