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Twitter has won the support of a big name backer against fast-growing rival Threads – but it’s the Taliban.
A leader of the hardline Islamist group, which seized power in Afghanistan in summer 2021, said Elon Musk‘s platform was a tolerant place that allowed freedom of speech to thrive.
Anas Haqqani offered his endorsement in a tweet on Monday, as it emerged that Meta’s new Twitter-like platform had amassed more than 100 million users in less than a week.
Its popularity and brazen similarity to Twitter has irked Musk, who’s made his disdain for Mark Zuckerberg clear in several tweets since Threads launched and even threatened to sue.
But Haqqani, whose group has banned women from university education, public spaces, and most jobs, said Musk had nothing to worry about.
“Other platforms cannot replace it,” he said of Twitter, citing its commitment to “freedom of speech” and its “public nature and credibility”.
“Twitter doesn’t have an intolerant policy like Meta,” he added.
Sky News contacted Twitter for comment, but only received a customary poop emoji in return.
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