The Taliban and supporters of the Afghanistan rulers have been buying up blue-check verifications on Twitter, according to a report.
BBC News found that Hedayatullah Hedayat, who heads the group’s “access to information” department and Abdul Haq Hammad, the top media official at the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture, both had the check marks on their profiles. Between them, they have hundreds of thousands of followers.
“Twitter Blue: Endorsed by the Taliban lol,” U.S. journalist Chris Taylor wrote on Twitter, linking to the BBC News story.
