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A journalist at The Kabul Times in Afghanistan in 2023. The Taliban’s information ministry runs the decades-old newspaper, one of about 15 major news outlets that have become tightly aligned with the group's radical Islamist ideology.

How the Taliban’s propaganda empire consumed Afghan media

In four years, the Taliban have annihilated Afghanistan’s independent media sector and supplanted it with their own propaganda empire and sophisticated digital bots that flood social media with pro-Taliban content. CPJ interviewed 10 Afghan journalists, inside and outside the country, who said that  independent media, which used to reach millions of people, have largely been…

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