Taliban ramp up on social media, complicate things for Facebook, Twitter

The question of what to allow online with the Taliban is only likely to grow for the social media companies.

As the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday, a spokesman for the group uploaded five videos to his official YouTube page. The videos, each between two and three minutes long, showed Taliban leaders congratulating fighters on their victories.

“Now is the time to serve the nation and to give them peace and security,” Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a co-founder of the Taliban, said in one video in Pashtun as he sat in front of senior officials in a curtained office.

Dozens of pro-Taliban accounts that had sprung up on Twitter in recent days then shared