Official Taliban websites go offline, reasons unknown
The HinduTaliban websites that delivered the insurgents’ official messages of victory to Afghans and the world at large in five languages went offline abruptly on August 20, indicating an effort to squelch them. Also on August 20, the popular encrypted messaging service WhatsApp removed a number of Taliban groups, according to Rita Katz, director of SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks online extremism. But the reported removal of the WhatsApp groups followed the banning of Taliban accounts by Facebook, the service’s parent company, on August 17 after the U.S.-backed Afghan government fell to the Taliban. This includes banning accounts that appear to represent themselves as official accounts of the Taliban.” Ms. Katz said via email that she hoped the removal of the Taliban websites is just a first step to diminishing its online presence.
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