From banned to beloved, the Taliban’s unexpected embrace of the internet

The World

Afghanistan’s Taliban leadership may have smashed TVs in the 1990s, but these days, they’re embracing slickly-produced videos and social media influencers to try to rehab their image abroad. From the podcast “Click Here,” Dina Temple-Raston has the story.

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