No wonder the left hates Elon Musk so much. He’s removed the “blue checked” or “verified” status of senior Taliban members who never got banned from Twitter despite spewing terrorism propaganda and other atrocities. The left is losing their shit over the removal of the Taliban’s loss of “verified” status on Twitter.
Twitter has apparently revoked the verified “blue check” status of senior members of the Taliban who reportedly paid the $8-a-month subscription fee.
At least two officials of the Islamic group that overran US-backed forces and took over the country before the American troop withdrawal in August 2021 subscribed to the Twitter Blue service introduced by new owner Elon Musk.
But after the BBC News service reported the Taliban officials’ verified status, Twitter appears to have canceled their subscriptions.
A glance at the Twitter account pages for Taliban officials Abdul Haq Hammad and Hedayatullah Hedayat showed that as of Tuesday there was no “blue check” next to their handles.
Several other public figures known to be affiliated with the Taliban were also reported to have bought the blue check, though the symbol was not visible as of Tuesday morning.
Hammad, whose account boasts more than 170,000 followers, is the head of the media watchdog unit at the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture.
The account run by Hedayat, a top official in the Taliban’s “information department” who has more than 188,000 followers, had the blue check mark — as indicated by a screenshot that was posted by DailyMail.com.