The moderate government was no different. It even says so in the article.
"Social media was basically used by the government to create honey traps to bait gay and bisexual men," LGBTQ activist Nemat Sadat told Insider.
"National security officials would make fake profiles and go on Grindr and different Facebook groups and say 'hey look, I really want to meet you' and then basically would take them out and kill them and then throw away their body."
"And this wasn't under the Taliban. This was under Ashraf Ghani and Hamid Karzai," he said."