After the Taliban came to power, certain contacts and friendships in Afghanistan could prove fatal. Facebook wants to protect its users.
After the militant Islamist Taliban came to power on Facebook accounts in Afghanistan, there is no longer any possibility of looking at or searching through lists of friends.
This function has been temporarily removed to protect users from attacks, said the company’s head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, on Twitter.
In addition, a new tool in Afghanistan makes it easier to block your own account with a single click of the mouse. The company explained: “If your profile is blocked, people who are not friends with you cannot download or share their profile photo or see posts on their timeline.”
The group also wants to protect Afghan Instagram accounts, wrote Gleicher. “On Instagram, we will be introducing pop-up warnings in Afghanistan with specific steps to protect your account.” At the same time, he appealed to users in other countries with “friends” in Afghanistan to protect them with stricter visibility settings for their own accounts.
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