Twitter permanently suspends conservative activist group Project Veritas

Twitter has permanently suspended the account of conservative activist group Project Veritas, after the organization released a video of a reporter questioning a Facebook executive outside their home, the New York Times reports. The account of Project Veritass founder, James OKeefe, was also temporarily locked.

In a statement given to the NYT , Twitter said the @Project_Veritas account was suspended for repeated violations of Twitters private information policy.

In a statement published by Policito, OKeefe said the offending video included footage of a reporter questioning Facebook vice president Guy Ronsen, but denied that Project Veritas had published his private information. The NYT notes that this questioning took place outside the executives home. OKeefe said the organization would not be taking down the offending coverage. It would be unconscionable for me to take down our reporting where it didnt violate anyones privacy rights, he told the NYT .

After temporarily locking his account, Twitter said OKeefe would need to delete a post that was in violation of its rules before he could tweet again. As of this writing, OKeefes account is active once again, with two tweets labelled as unavailable on its feed. IM BACK, reads its pinned post, accompanied by a video outlining the groups dispute with Twitter.

Prior to its suspension, Project Veritass Twitter account was prominent on the platform, and counted Donald Trumps adult sons as followers. But others have questioned its tactics and the accuracy of its reporting. One of its videos about allegations of voter fraud was called a domestic, coordinated elite disinformation campaign by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Washington, Politico notes. Other examples of its videos include one which claimed to show evidence of bias against then-President Trump at Google, as well as another that claimed to show bias against conservatives at Facebook.

slippery slope in action

Good.

Should have happened sooner. People creating and pushing fake news need to be silenced. We saw how well it has worked with removing Trump's voice.

Fucking good.

Not sure I entirely agree. I would rather reframe it as "we don't need algorithms that indiscriminately magnify content that make people angry for profit".

People in this topic saying how happy they are but they can't even say why lmao

People creating and pushing fake news need to be silenced. We saw how well it has worked with removing Trump's voice.

But someone did:

We've had this discussion before, but in case I'm misremembering:

I think it's very likely that even if you removed all algorithmic influences in people's feeds, you would still have an amplification of fake news, and it would probably amplify more within particular networks of people.

I just don't think there's a realistic way to solve it without just removing harmful material.

He didn't say anything lmao. SHow me the fake news, I haven't seen it

I actually don't think we have, you're probably confusing me with someone else.
I'm not convinced. I'm sure there would be some amplification, and the problem wouldn't just disappear, but I think the business model of social media is at the core of this issue.

try google

slippery slope in action

This dude said "Show me the fake news, I haven't seen it"

lmao

fascism is cool?

fascism is cool?

They're infamous for producing deceptively edited and misleading videos and trying to entrap members of the organizations they target. In one incident they tried tricking the Washington Post into posting a fabricated article about Roy Moore's sexual conduct allegations and failed.

This is really all stuff you can read on their Wikipedia article (which by the way is locked so don't give me that "anyone can edit it" shit)

who said that?

slippery slope in action

I suppose the primary disagreement here is simply how bad the remaining amplification would be, and that's really just an empirical question.

That guy is probably a fascist who didnt mean to put a question mark.

Thank you for a legitimate response.

As someone who is mostly conservative, and follows rumors and clickbait, I found most Veritas content boring and without substance. So, eh, I don't give a shit.

As someone who is mostly conservative, and follows rumors and clickbait, I found most Veritas content boring and without substance. So, eh, I don't give a s***.

So you don't know what the fake news is then. Do you even know why you support the things you do? Lmao

Well glad to see youve embraced being a rightwing conspiracy theorist and have dropped the both sides are equally bad! Have you heard this conspiracy tho? Schtick

slippery slope in action

Well, its Caution so...

Well glad to see youve embraced being a rightwing conspiracy theorist and have dropped the both sides are equally bad! Have you heard this conspiracy tho? Schtick

@RebelElite791 frozen pie is caution!?

Yeah