"I don’t think this 'Taliban' are all bad," said one anonymous Telegram user. "I think they’ve been infiltrated by good guys." president Donald Trump from these global platforms. Several white supremacist Telegram channels cheered the Taliban's criticism of Facebook and other social media companies for deleting their posts, directly linking these takedowns to how these companies barred former U.S. They shared these posts and videos within their own online communities - many openly praising the Taliban's rise to power, strict conservative views and antagonism towards Silicon Valley's attempts to remove them from the online world. Still, the widespread sharing of such content quickly came to the attention of far-right groups in both the U.S. "We will continue to proactively enforce our rules and review content that may violate Twitter rules," said a company representative.
"We remove accounts maintained by or on behalf of the Taliban and prohibit praise, support, and representation of them," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. In response, the companies said their existing policies against the promotion of violent groups equally applied to the Taliban and its supporters, and that they were actively removing such content whenever they came across it. Yet POLITICO's review of Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube over the last two weeks found scores of Taliban-related content still widely available - often shared by groups or accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers, respectively. "I suppose it makes sense given their shared bigotry."Įver since the January 6 riots in Washington, mainstream social media platforms have become more vigilant in policing their platforms for extremist material. "The extreme far right-Taliban nexus is particularly worrying and probably surprising to many," said Adam Hadley, director of Tech Against Terrorism, a nonprofit that works with smaller social networks in combating the rise of extremist content online. On 4Chan, a message board frequented by the far right, the Taliban's military success was promoted as evidence that Western governments would similarly soon be toppled. On Telegram, white supremacists openly debated if the Taliban should be considered good guys because of their homophobic views.
On Twitter, supporters of the Capitol Hill riots in Washington posted pictures of American rioters next to images of Taliban fighters inside the presidential palace in Kabul.
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