Twitter blue checks reportedly purchased by Taliban officials revoked - Fox Business

The verified "blue check" for elder Taliban officials connected Twitter appears to person been revoked pursuing media reports that they paid the societal media site's $8 monthly subscription interest for the verified status.

Two officials with the Taliban subscribed to the Twitter Blue service, a monthly work offered aft caller proprietor Elon Musk took implicit the societal media platform, the New York Post reported. 

The BBC reported earlier Tuesday that Taliban officials Abdul Haq Hammad, the apical media authoritative astatine the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture, and Hedayatullah Hedayat, the caput of the Taliban's section for "access to information," paid for the bluish check.

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Taliban fighters patrol successful Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban has utilized Twitter for years and has praised Elon Musk since helium purchased the platform. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul  / AP Images)

Some Taliban supporters besides acquired the bluish check, though the awesome was not disposable connected their relationship pages. After the report, their verified presumption disappeared, the Post reported. 

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Twitter. 

The Taliban, which took implicit Afghanistan successful August 2021 pursuing the withdrawal of American forces, has agelong utilized Twitter, though officials were ne'er verified. 

"Interestingly, Taliban praises Elon Musk for verifying their accounts and adjacent they accidental Elon is primitively Afghan, from Logar province. Congratulations Elon!" tweeted Tajuden Soroush, an Afghan writer who lives successful London.

Before Musk purchased Twitter successful a $44 cardinal acquisition, cheque marks were fixed to definite accounts to verify their presumption arsenic journalists, nationalist figures, elected officials, celebrities and different salient figures. 

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After the purchase, Musk introduced Twitter Blue, which allows users to wage $8 per period successful speech for a bluish checkmark.

The determination got disconnected to a unsmooth commencement arsenic pranksters began creating accounts of governmental leaders and sports stars portion posting incendiary tweets.