(2021-08-18). Not notable enough? UN torture rapporteur who defended Assange gets rejected by Twitter for verification. rt.com 
Twitter has apparently never heard of UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer — an outspoken defender of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange — since it denied his verification request, saying he wasn't notable enough. | "Seriously?" Melzer tweeted on Wednesday, posting a screenshot of the message he received from Twitter's Verification service saying that "the evidence provided did not meet our criteria for notability." | "I am an official international mandate holder of [UN special procedures experts] appointed by the UN Human Rights Council, with an official webpage @UNHumanRights & countless p…
(2021-08-18). Taliban "Islam" versus the Islam of the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur'an. juancole.com 
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — British academic Abdul-Azim Ahmed of Cardiff University, an expert on mosques in the UK, complained on Twitter that he was invited onto television to debate whether the Taliban represent Islam: Just had a call from a journo asking if I could go on live to debate whether the Taliban represent …