Several active Twitter users, known for their support and sponsorship of the Taliban authorities in Afghanistan, have received in recent days the blue verification badge offered by the social network in exchange for a monthly subscription of eight dollars.
Precisely one of the latest to get this verification has been Mobin Jan, who on the platform has self-proclaimed himself as a Taliban general and has recently shown his gratitude to Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
Jan has become in recent weeks a controversial figure among the Taliban, since from his Twitter profile -now official-, where he accumulates more than 400,000 followers, he launches messages in defense of the right of women to education, against the latest regulations of the fundamentalists.
In general, tens of thousands of followers of the Afghan Taliban have begun in recent weeks to pay these eight dollars a month for the services of Twitter Blue which, among other benefits, grants the aforementioned verification.
These profiles regularly use the social network to propagate Taliban activities and disseminate key messages of the fundamentalist group that has been running Afghanistan since August 2021, when they came to power coinciding with the withdrawal of U.S. troops deployed there.
Musk took over most of Twitter’s rights months ago, thus becoming its CEO and starring since then in successive controversies, such as the dismissal of employees or the aforementioned Twitter Blue initiative, which allows anyone who pays to receive the verification badge, so far reserved for contrasted accounts.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
