"Other platforms cannot replace it," said a senior member of the Taliban in a tweet, explaining that Meta is "intolerant."

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    41•2 years ago

    Oh good. I’m glad to hear this. It seems as though the Christian and Muslim extremists approve of twitter. I know exactly where I won’t be going.

  • @[email protected]English
    53•2 years ago

    I remember back around 2012-2013 ISIS using twitter to post gore videos and twitter was lazy asf about dealing with it

    • @[email protected]English
      3•2 years ago

      I always figured Twitter was working with the US government by keeping those accounts open, helping them track location and whatnot.

    • 50gp
      17•2 years ago

      social media sites give 0 fucks about properly moderating anything but popular euro languages

      • JohnnyEnglish
        14•2 years ago

        At the time Facebook fueled a genocide in Myanmar they had practically no moderation for Burmese content, if I recall correctly.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•2 years ago

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

  • 𝐘Ⓞz҉English
    20•2 years ago

    So I read threads google play store reviews and most of them are bots. I think meta is using bots to hype threads downloads and stupid media might have taken money from zuck to post the news. Influencers and celebrities are definitely paid to use threads and the sheeps follow.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•2 years ago

      Using an existing product to artificially inflate user counts for a new product and padding it out with bots. That sounds nothing like…eh who am I kidding. This sounds exactly like zuck. And I be the bots are his family.

  • @[email protected]English
    34•2 years ago

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

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

  • MisterMoo
    3•2 years ago

    “We like any place where the leader declares cisgender to be a slur.”

  • xuxebiko
    -4•2 years ago

    I bet facebook/ meta paid them to endorse the birdsite.

    • StarServal
      6•2 years ago

      I’m sure you’re probably joking, but in case you weren’t, that would set Meta up for some federal crime type of trouble.

      • Poggervania
        1•2 years ago

        Good thing businesses don’t regularly break laws and just pay a relatively small fee in order to continue doing business. /s

        Snark aside, I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if Zuckerfuck could afford to either just pay the fines or bribe public officials to letting this happen.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•2 years ago

    No idea why people are still buying Teslas when the Taliban are literally a fan of the CEO.

  • KokeshEnglish
    14•2 years ago

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