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Taliban chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has more than 630,000 followers of his official Twitter account. But the only web address under his profile links to a terminated page.

Mujahid and his team were once dubbed masters of online propaganda when the Taliban were fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Now, as a de facto government, the Taliban's use of digital platforms is confronted with service denials, adversarial campaigns and removal from social media platforms.

Last week Meta, Facebooks parent company, closed the Facebook and Instagram accounts of state-run Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) and the Bakhtar News Agency.

The accounts were created by the previous U.S.-backed Afghan government and were left for the Taliban, who used them to disseminate news of their government.

The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under U.S. law, and they are banned from using our services under our Dangerous Organizations policies," a Meta spokesperson told VOA. This means we remove accounts maintained by or on behalf of the Taliban and prohibit praise, support and representation of them.

Google follows the same policy.

While VOA was seeking comments for this story, a link to a Taliban YouTube radio channel was sent to Google as a reference. In less than 24 hours, the channel was gone.

Google is committed to compliance with applicable U.S. sanctions laws and enforces related policies under its Terms of Service. As such, if we find an account that belongs to the Taliban, we terminate it, a Google spokesperson told VOA.

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Days after former Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan, Taliban acting Prime Minister Mullah Hasan Akhund occupied the presidential palace popularly known as the Arg ("fort" in the Dari language).

Despite taking control of the physical building in Kabul and all corners of the landlocked country, Akhund has been denied access to the Args previously robust cyber realm. The domain president.gov.af is broken. The Args Facebook page, which carried millions of likes, is nonexistent. And the official Twitter handle, @ARG_AFG, has been inactive since August 15, 2021 the day Ghani fled.

There is no verified Taliban account on Twitter, but the platform has allowed numerous unverified accounts, including Mujahids, to promote Taliban policies and statements. Twitter did not respond to requests for comment.

The Taliban started using Twitter in 2011 primarily to target Western audiences and quickly used the service to disseminate propaganda, according to research in 2014 by the Terrorism Research Initiative.

After Meta closed RTAs Facebook accounts, some campaigners launched the BanTaliban hashtag on Twitter. In response, pro-Taliban campaigners launched the SupportTaliban hashtag, which according to an AI tracking account generated considerable responses among some Twitter users.

De facto government

The U.S. government has designated several Taliban officials and entities linked to them as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

As insurgents, the Taliban called for armed attacks against U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan. But since taking over the government, the groups rhetoric and statements have shifted more toward governance and social service provision, according to Tamar Mitts, a faculty member at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University in New York.

What makes the Taliban unique is that unlike many other groups, it also functions as a state, which raises questions about whether companies should allow governance-related content on their platforms when the entity that generates the content is designated as a dangerous organization, Mitts told VOA.

The Taliban have challenged their removal from popular social networking sites as a sign of Western hypocrisy toward free speech.

The slogan freedom of expression is used to deceive other nations, Mujahid tweeted on July 20.

Unlike in neighboring Iran where the Islamic government has banned Facebook, thus far, the Taliban have not banned social platforms inside Afghanistan.

Under strict international financial sanctions and not recognized as a government by any country, the Taliban are widely condemned for their suppressive policies toward media and women.

Last month, they arrested a famous Afghan YouTuber for alleged insult toward Islamic scriptures.

Some experts believe the Talibans propaganda should also be banned on social platforms when they stifle critics and impose censorship on Afghan media.

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Newark, July 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As per the report published by The Brainy Insights, the globaldigital marketing software market is expected to grow from USD 62.6 billion in 2021 to USD 265.2 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 17.4% during the forecast period 2022-2030.

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In 2021, the cloud-based deployment segment accounted for the largest share of the market, with 61.3% and market revenue of 38.3 billion.

The deployment segment is divided into on-premise and cloud. In 2021, the cloud-based deployment segment accounted for the largest share of the market, with 61.3% and market revenue of 38.3 billion. Cloud-based deployment is used to combine virtual cloud servers with dedicated hosting infrastructure. The rising need for cloud-based deployment drives the growth of the segment.

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North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico) Europe (Germany, France, U.K., Italy, Spain, Rest of Europe) Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, India, Rest of APAC) South America (Brazil and Rest of South America) The Middle East and Africa (UAE, South Africa, Rest of MEA)

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Adobe Systems Inc. Google Corporation Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP HubSpot, Inc. IBM Corporation Microsoft Corporation Oracle Corporation Salesforce Inc. SAP SE SAS Institute Inc.

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27 Jul 2022 --- Unhealthy F&B brands are encouraging TikTok users to market their products for them effectively turning them into brand ambassadors and using their own accounts for promotional activity. The evidence has revealed that this exposure to children ultimately influences food preferences, purchasing, requests and consumption.

The findings have been published in the open access journalBMJ Global Healthand emphasize the need for policies protecting children from the harmful impact of this type of marketing on social media, flag the researchers.

Social media influenceTikTok users create, post, watch and engage with short videos. Since its release, the social media platforms popularity has rapidly increased. Its global monthly active users reportedly rose from 55 million in January 2018 to 1 billion in September 2021.

And it is popular with children: over a third of its daily users in the US are reportedly aged 14 or younger.

Yet no study to date has looked at the impact of unhealthy food marketing on TikTok, despite calls for attention to be paid to the health implications of the platform, the researchers underscore.

To plug this knowledge gap, the researchers assessed the content of all videos posted on the accounts of 16 leading food and non-alcoholic beverage brands based on global brand share as of June 30, 2021.

The content and sentiment of a sample of relevant user-generated content created in response to branded hashtag challenges instigated by these brands were also assessed.

Children are exposed to a vast amount of unhealthy high in salt, sugar and fat food marketing online.Some 539 videos had been posted on 16 included accounts, with 3% (17) published in 2019], 37% (198) in 2020, and 60% (324) in the first six months of 2021. Four accounts had not posted any videos.

The number of followers of the included accounts ranged from 14 to 1.6 million. Videos received an average of 63,400 views, 5,829 likes, 157 comments and 36 shares per video.

The most common marketing strategies were branding (87% of videos), product images (85%), engagement (31%) and celebrities/ influencers (25%).

Engagement included instigating branded hashtag challenges that encouraged the creation of user-generated content featuring brands products, videos and/or branded effects, such as stickers, filters, or special effects featuring branding.

The total collective views of user-generated content from single challenges ranged from 12.7 million to 107.9 billion. Among a sample of 626 brand-relevant videos generated in response to these challenges, 96% featured branding, 68% product images and 41% branded effects.

Most portrayed a positive (73%) or neutral/unclear (25%) sentiment, with few portraying a negative (3%) sentiment.

Promotional activity analyzedThe study is observational, so it cannot establish causality, state the researchers. They acknowledge that the sampled user-generated content may not represent a branded hashtag challenge. Nor were they able to measure childrens exposure to brands promotional activities or user-generated content.

But they say: Brand activity has rapidly increased with most videos posted in the six months preceding data collection and includes instigating branded hashtag challenges that encourage user-generated content featuring brand products, brand-supplied videos or branded effects.

Analysis of a sample of brand-relevant user-generated content created in response to these showed that branded hashtag challenges are effectively turning users into, in TikToks words, unofficial brand ambassadors.

While fewer videos were posted by users who seem to have been paid (influencers, for example), these attracted nearly ten times as many likes per video, on average, as those seemingly not paid for and are therefore likely important in propagating branded hashtag challenges, the researchers outline.

The substantial reach of influencer marketing is concerning given that exposure to influencer marketing of unhealthy foods has been shown to increase energy intake (from unhealthy foods and overall), they write.

And the researchers also highlight that proposed UK legislation will ban all paid-for online marketing of less healthy food and drink from January 2023.The researchers acknowledge that the sampled user-generated content may not have represented a branded hashtag challenge.

But it includes an exemption for brand-only advertising and excludes marketing originating outside the UK, even though social networking platforms frequently operate across international borders.

Our study has shown that TikTok is an emerging source of unhealthy food marketing, including that created by users at the instigation of brands. Given TikToks popularity among children, our findings support the need for policies that protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing, including that on social networking platforms, explain the researchers.

TikToks rising popularity also calls for further research into its potential impact on public health and its role as a corporate political actor, they conclude.

The impact on childrenAccording to recent analysis, UK figures for childhood obesity were supposed to halve by 2030. Still, predictions have revealed that, if current trends persist, childhood obesity will increase by 15% among four to five-year-olds and 20% among ten to eleven-year-olds.

The World Health Organization recently flagged the harmful impact of food marketing on children. With childhood overweight and obesity increasingly becoming global public health concerns, the organization addresses the pressing issue by outlining food market threats and governments responsibilities.

Meanwhile, Unilever previously raised the age for restricting F&B marketing to children aged between 13-16 in recognition of the influence social media and digital adverts can have on young people.

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Dublin, July 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "WFH & Mobility Infrastructure Policy Bundle" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Based on data from the most recent IT Salary Survey, 97% of the 500 plus companies that we interviewed have WFH or flexible hours as a fringe benefit for IT professionals. That is up from 80% in 2021 and 42% in 2020

Policies and procedures on how to deal with increasing mobility are the nemesis of CIOs around the world - CCPA and GDPR implications addressed

Telecommuting and WFH Best Practices - Work From Home (WFH) is now standard for many IT Pros

WFH and Mobility Infrastructure Policy Bundle contains the following policies and associated electronic forms in MS Word and PDF formats: BYOD Policy; Mobile Device Access and Use Policy; Privacy Compliance Policy; Record Management, Retention, and Destruction Policy; Social Networking Policy; WFH and Telecommuting Policy; Travel and Off-Site Meeting Policy; Wearable Device Policy; 15 complete job descriptions and 30 electronic forms.

WFH & Mobility Policy Bundle to Administer Telecommuters - The increasing use and dependency on IT is drastically changing the way companies improve employee productivity and keep in closer contact with its customers. Today most businesses provide laptops to employees. The challenge comes with Smart Phones and tablets while bringing additional benefits. Employees who are accustomed to using these tools in their personal life are requesting (or demanding) to use the same tools at the workplace.

In addition to the influx of mobile devices, companies are dealing with increasing numbers of employees who are working from non-traditional office locations. Whether employees are traveling, working from customer sites, or working from home, there is a growing need to access corporate data while outside the walls of an office and the firewalls of an IT department. Some questions are raised.

Where should the focus be for mobility computing implementation? Supporting employees involves device management, the connection of those devices, and applications that support collaboration. While connecting with customers involves less focus on devices and more focus on applications and a support structure that addresses customer needs.

Best Practices for WFH and Telecommuting

WFH and telecommuting employees are now common practices. In addition to having policies in place for these workers, enterprises need to ensure that what is being done is what should be worked on. Customer service is key, and at the same time management of human and technical resources should be a management focus.

With our prior experience and our subsequent activities during the pandemic-related shutdowns, we have defined Best Practices for Telecommuting and WFH. These have all been included in our WFH & Mobility Infrastructure Policy Bundle.

8 Policies included in the full bundle are:

30 Electronic Forms including:

16 Full Job Descriptions:

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If it bleeds, it leads so goes the media expression and this is especially true of news out of Afghanistan, which made global headlines during the presence of US forces but few while lives are being lost to the climate crisis.

The main attention Afghanistan gets these days is when big international aid agencies put together posters of hungry women and children for donations, or when a calamity like the June 2022 earthquake hits.

But as you are reading these lines, many towns and villages in the war-ravaged country remain submerged by flash floods triggered weeks ago by a relentless spate of untimely rains and melting glaciers, claiming lives and destroying livelihoods of marginalised communities already surviving on small amounts of foreign aid.

Its currently peak summer harvest season when farmers gather fruits and collect staples for the approaching winter. But it snowed briefly in the central highlands after long and crippling dry spells, when farmers were desperately longing for the usual spring season rains.

Then came violent hail storms destroying orchards and eventually rain that ruined the wheat crops. None of these events are anywhere near normal in terms of the climate of this landlocked country of nearly 40 million people.

The glaciers in the Himalayas are melting at an unmatched pace, bringing the deadly floods from the mountains of the northern provinces all the way down to the plains in the south. These fast-depleting glaciers are the lifeline of Afghans who rely heavily on the natural streams and rivers. Despite this, there has been no development work on water preservation, storage and distribution over the past couple of decades on a national level. The underground levels are dropping at an alarming rate as it is the only way for locals to look for water.

Prior to the latest downpours, the drought was so severe and the heatwave so intense it led to multiple occurrences of forest fire in the countrys east and south. This was a grim tragedy. Locals in the fire-affected Khost and Nuristan provinces had to rely on youth from the local communities to put out the fires by carrying buckets of water and sand with their bare hands, day and night.

The climate crisis is so real in the country that it will likely trigger another food crisis in the months to follow. All this at a time when the delivery of aid is hampered and overshadowed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, leading to supply chain disorders, inflation and donor fatigue.

Is the media solely to blame for this? No. Could they do more to help? Yes. Just as the major environment polluters must take responsibility for the miseries they have inflicted upon a population that has been left at the mercy of the Taliban.

Before Afghanistan plunged into the current crisis, the country was promised some funding from the Green Climate Fund, but with the fall of Kabul to the Taliban it seems the world has simply abandoned the country, turning a blind eye to the escalating disasters.

Amid all this, Afghanistans neighbours have manipulated the situation to their advantage with dodgy deals with the Taliban that would give them access to the countrys rich natural resources at throwaway prices, propping up a funding stream for the defecto regime.

China also has its eyes on Afghanistans rich and extensive lithium, iron and copper ore reserves while Pakistan has accelerated the import of high-grade coal at bargain prices, which is only going to accelerate the melting of the Himalayan glaciers as well as increasing global pollution levels. For Pakistan, a country grappling under tough financial conditions, a steady flow of coal will help fire up power plants and revive the ailing railway network.

The quest for coal even prompted Pakistani authorities to make non-stop border-crossing arrangements during the day and night a privilege that was not even offered during the peak of the war when thousands of war-weary Afghans were fleeing the country in all directions.

The search for Afghanistans untapped mineral wealth even attracted Australias richest man, Andrew Forrest, to the country just weeks before the Taliban takeover.

Reporting on environmental disasters in Afghanistan is important, as it would serve as a catalyst for the entire green movement around the world to hold deniers and polluters to account.

The local media the few surviving outlets post the Taliban takeover is unable or unwilling to critically report on all of this because of obvious fears of retaliation. And for the international media, the Afghanistan story seems to have hit a dead-end of sadness, with nothing new or exciting for the international media or its consumers.

One can dispute matters of politics in the country, but the climate calamity Afghanistan is facing is imposed from outside. Its time the world, and neighbouring and regional polluters, take responsibility.

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