(Free Beacon) Twitter’s “auto-recommendation” tool is pushing users to follow Taliban accounts.
Taliban spokesmen and leaders have large followings on the social media platform, which has not banned members of the jihadist group. Twitter users who follow Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen are prompted to follow “a set of accounts that work well” with Shaheen’s, including those of other Taliban members.
The Taliban used Twitter to spread propaganda and establish control over Kabul as the United States withdrew from the Afghan capital. Twitter’s rules ban “hateful conduct” and “threatening or promoting terrorism,” but the company has not announced whether it considers the Taliban a terrorist organization. Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump in the wake of the Jan. 6 riots “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
