Twitter suspends Twitter account of workplace of Afghan caretaker President Amrullah Saleh

On August 19, Twitter suspended all accounts related to caretaker President Amrullah Saleh of Afghanistan. Afghan President’s official deal with @Afghanpresident and his social gathering Afghanistan Green Trend’s (AGT) deal with @AfgGreenTrend had been suspended by the micro-blogging web site. Reportedly, Saleh continues to be mobilising forces to counter the takeover of Afghanistan. He is presently lodged within the Panjshir province that has not but fallen into the fingers of the Taliban.
Twitter account of Saleh’s workplace suspendedWhat is attention-grabbing is that whereas Twitter suspended accounts related to Saleh, the Taliban’s spokesperson account continues to be energetic on the platform. In reality, accounts of a number of Taliban leaders can be found on Twitter. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid who’s actively updating his account with the most recent updates, has over 300,000 followers. Spokesperson Suhail Shaheen additionally has over 300,000 followers, whereas Qari Yousaf Ahmadi has round 60,000 followers on Twitter.
Twitter accounts of Taliban leadersWhile Facebook and YouTube swiftly began banning accounts related to the Taliban and its followers, Twitter refrained itself from doing so. It mentioned that the Taliban’s accounts are below fixed monitoring, and they’d take motion towards the Jihadi group in the event that they “cross the line”.
Facebook, whereas saying the ban on Taliban, said that it had designated Taliban a terrorist organisation as per US legal guidelines and it might take away all accounts and content material related to Taliban from all its platforms, together with Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram.