A veteran war reporter in Afghanistan was forced to tweet retractions for her accurate articles by the Taliban

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“They dictated. I tweeted. They didn’t like it. Deleted, edited, re-tweeted. Made video of me saying I wasn’t coerced. Re-did that too.” —

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