ISLAMABAD, 17 Jan. (DPA/EP) –
Several active users on Twitter, 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 last to obtain this verification has been Mobin Jan, who on the platform has proclaimed himself as a Taliban general and has recently shown his gratitude to the executive director of Twitter, Elon Musk.
In recent weeks, Jan has become a controversial figure among the Taliban, since from her profile – now official – on Twitter, where she has more than 400,000 followers, she launches messages in defense of women’s right to education, against the latest regulations of fundamentalists.
In general, tens of thousands of followers of the Afghan Taliban have begun in recent weeks to pay these eight dollars a month to get hold of the Twitter Blue services that, among other benefits, grants the aforementioned verification.
These profiles regularly use the social network to propagate Taliban activities and disseminate key messages from the fundamentalist group that has led Afghanistan since August 2021, when they came to power coinciding with the withdrawal of US troops deployed there.
Musk took over the majority of the rights to Twitter months ago, thus becoming its executive director and since then has been the subject of successive controversies, such as the firing of employees or the aforementioned Twitter Blue initiative, which allows anyone who pays to receive the verification badge, until now reserved for verified accounts.
