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Taliban are no longer relying primarily on censorship and violence to control Afghanistan’s media landscape, but instead are engaging in systematic manipulation of private media for state propaganda, according to a new report from Nai in Exile, a media advocacy group formerly based in Kabul.
In an assessment released Thursday, the organization said it had found that the Taliban have transformed independent radio, television, and news agencies into instruments for disseminating official narratives — not through overt shutdowns or bans, but through “targeted exploitation” of editorial content and newsroom operations.
“The Taliban are not merely silencing the media,” the report states. “They are using them — coercively and systematically — as tools for political messaging, indistinguishable in function from state-run outlets.”
Drawing on secondary sources and testimonies, Nai in Exile said that many private media outlets now broadcast Taliban messaging at levels surpassing even state-run broadcasters such as Bakhtar News
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