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How Social Platforms Are Dealing with the Taliban

Twitter app on a phone screen
August 19, 2021

Sarah Kreps, PACS

“There’s a realization that winning the war is as much a function of a nonmilitary tool like social media as it is about the bullets,” says Sarah Kreps, professor of government. “Maybe these groups, even from just an instrumental perspective, have realized that beheading people is not a way to win the hearts and minds of the country.”

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