{"id":1808904,"date":"2023-01-17T18:35:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T23:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1808904"},"modified":"2023-01-17T18:38:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T23:38:39","slug":"twitter-appears-to-remove-blue-check-marks-from-taliban-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-appears-to-remove-blue-check-marks-from-taliban-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Appears To Remove Blue Check Marks From Taliban Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-appears-to-remove-blue-check-marks-from-taliban-authorities%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1808904&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p class=\"p1\">Twitter appears to have removed verified check marks that were attached to Taliban accounts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jan\/17\/twitter-blue-verified-taliban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">purchased<\/a> them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Twitter was a social media platform that provided only the information. \u201cverified\u201d Groups that were marked with marks \u201cactive, notable and authentic accounts of public interest,\u201d According to The Guardian. However, Elon Musk\u2019s new plan has been to allow people to pay money for the check marks. The Twitter Blue verification system costs $8 per month. An additional $11 will be charged to those who use the Apple social media app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It&#8217;s a way to. \u201cget priority ranking in search, mentions, and replies to help lower the visibility of scams, spam and bots,\u201d According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterBlue\/status\/1602426811656413189?s=20&#038;t=kpMNq63QYJVRG96AAyK-9g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, too <a href=\"https:\/\/help.twitter.com\/en\/managing-your-account\/about-twitter-verified-accounts#:~:text=A%20blue%20checkmark%20may%20mean,%2C%20notable%2C%20and%20authentic).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clarifies<\/a> A blue check could be interpreted as \u201cthe account has an active subscription to the new Twitter Blue subscription service and has met our eligibility criteria,\u201d Or \u201cthe account was previously verified under the legacy verification criteria.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Re-installation of the system was possible.<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/17\/twitter-removes-blue-checks-bought-by-taliban-officials\/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=NYPTwitter&#038;utm_medium=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> The first introduction failed in December after people attempted to pretend to be political figures or organizations. Musk then paused the verification plan in order to make sure that such issues wouldn\u2019t come up again in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As of Monday, the accounts for the leader of the Taliban\u2019s department for \u201caccess to information,\u201d Hedayatullah Hedayat and Abdul Haq Hammad, the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture&#8217;s media watchdog, had each blue marks. The verification markers were also used by four other key backers of the terrorist organization. Last month, Hammad\u2019s blue check mark was taken off, local media reportedly noted, but it was back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-64294613\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> The Taliban members were using the verification method to buy it. Also, the terrorist group took control of verified Twitter accounts previously used by the previous administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Twitter seemed to have stopped offering blue check subscriptions to Taliban members following the publication of the report. On Tuesday, Hedayat\u2019s and Hammad\u2019s Twitter accounts didn\u2019t have the blue check marks anymore. It wasn\u2019t entirely obvious what had caused the blue check marks to no longer be on the accounts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Musk has made it a point to keep some users off the platform while allowing others to return to the platform after he assumed control. Babylon Bee was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/petersuciu\/2022\/03\/21\/the-babylon-bees-twitter-account-was-suspended-but-that-made-its-story-go-viral\/?sh=6b0c0c06209d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kicked<\/a> It is a platform that allows you to make the jokes about its existence. \u201cMan Of The Year\u201d Rachel Levine, a biological man who is the U.S. Secretary for Health at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was awarded the award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Twitter stated at the time that it was referring to The Babylon Bee. \u201cThe account you referenced has been temporarily locked for violating our hateful conduct policy. The account owner is required to delete the violative Tweet before regaining access to their account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Musk replaced the Bablyon Bee on Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter appeared to take away verified check marks from Taliban accounts that purchased them. In the past, Twitter only provided the \u201cverified\u201d marks to groups that were \u201cactive, notable and authentic accounts of public interest,\u201d according to The Guardian. However, Elon Musk\u2019s new plan has been to allow people to pay money for the check &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1808907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5840,5992,4138,5335,6202,8698,4987,3764,4253,6195],"class_list":["post-1808904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-appears","tag-authorities","tag-blue","tag-check","tag-daily","tag-marks","tag-remove","tag-taliban","tag-twitter","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1808907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}