- Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR), and Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) LinkedIn guarded the accounts of Afghan citizens amid the Taliban’s takeover, the BBC reports.
- Facebook users can no longer view or search the friends’ lists of accounts in Afghanistan for the time being. It also rolled out a “one-click tool” for Afghanistan’s users to lock down their accounts from unwanted viewers.
- Facebook had recently banned every form of Taliban content from its platform.
- Reuters reports that human rights groups have expressed concerns over the Taliban’s exploitation of online platforms to track Afghans’ digital histories or social connections.
- Twitter has collaborated with civil society partners and the Internet Archive to expedite direct requests to remove archived tweets.
- LinkedIn had temporarily hidden the connections of its Afghanistan users.
- Price Action: FB shares are up by 0.05% at $355.28, TWTR shares traded higher by 0.47% at $62.34, and MSFT shares traded higher by 0.72% at $298.90 in the premarket session on the last check Friday.
NBC News Correspondent Josh Lederman Tweets ‘Just In – President Biden Today Signed The NDAA, The White House Says, Which Includes The Vax Mandate Repeal For The Military’
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