- A spokesperson told the BBC that Facebook is actively removing Taliban content.
- The spokesperson said that it has a team of “Afghan experts” monitoring its platform.
- Facebook has been criticized for failing to stop incitement and hate speech on its platform.
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Facebook said that after the organization, it is actively identifying and deleting Taliban content on its platform Occupy the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday,
A spokesperson told reporters British Broadcasting Corporation As a terrorist organization, according to the company’s “dangerous organization” policy, the Taliban are prohibited from using Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
“This means that we have deleted accounts maintained by or on behalf of the Taliban, and are prohibited from praising, supporting and representing them,” the spokesperson told the BBC.
The spokesperson said: “We also have a dedicated team of Afghan experts who are native speakers of Dari and Pashto, who understand the local situation and help identify and remind us of problems on our platform.”
Dari and Pashto are the most widely spoken languages in Afghanistan.
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said: “We rely on this policy to proactively ban anything that may be dangerous or related to the Taliban.” Bloomberg.
“Now this situation is evolving rapidly, and I believe the risks will follow. We will have to modify our work and how we do it to deal with these changing risks.”
Washington post The report said that before arriving in Kabul, the Taliban sent a message to residents on WhatsApp, declaring that “we are responsible for safety.”
When asked by Insider about the number of its Afghan expert team, Facebook did not immediately respond.
The social media giant has been criticized in the past for not taking sufficient measures to prevent its platform from being used for incitement and hate speech during humanitarian crises.
2018 company Admit that it did not act when it was used as a tool to incite hatred Oppose the Rohingya in Myanmar.
then, Reuters According to reports, only 60 people are responsible for managing 18 million Facebook users in Myanmar.
It also reported that Facebook only hired three people whose native language was Burmese at the time.
