Taliban Ban TikTok App for ‘Misleading’ Youth in Afghanistan
- About 23% of Afghanistan’s total population are internet users
- TikTok was ‘wasting’ people’s time, the Taliban spokesman says
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ByteDance Ltd’s TikTok video app will be banned in Afghanistan as part of a moral policing drive by the ruling Taliban, a spokesman for the group said.
The widely-used social media application is “misleading the younger generation,” Inamullah Samangani said on Twitter. TikTok’s “filthy content was not consistent with Islamic laws,” he later said by phone.