{"id":4545,"date":"2023-02-06T17:14:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T17:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2023-03-14T17:16:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T17:16:05","slug":"tiktok-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2023\/02\/06\/tiktok-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/the-taliban-cant-stop-tiktok\">Ali M. Latifi, Wired, The Taliban Can\u2019t Stop TikTok<\/a> &#8220;TikTok\u2019s rise in Afghanistan is a recent phenomenon in a marketplace that has mainly been dominated by Facebook, which has around 3.7 million users in the country. As in many emerging markets, Facebook\u2019s rollout intersected with hundreds of thousands of people coming online. But Facebook\u2019s growth has stalled over the past couple of years, while TikTok has become ubiquitous, particularly among young, urban Afghans.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ali M. Latifi, Wired, The Taliban Can\u2019t Stop TikTok &#8220;TikTok\u2019s rise in Afghanistan is a recent phenomenon in a marketplace that has mainly been dominated by Facebook, which has around 3.7 million users in the country. As in many emerging markets, Facebook\u2019s rollout intersected with hundreds of thousands of people coming online. But Facebook\u2019s growth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168,169,170,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan-internet","category-facebook","category-meta","category-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4546,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4545\/revisions\/4546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}