Twitter Permanently Suspends Project Veritas Account
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Twitter permanently suspends 'Project Veritas' groupTwitter permanently suspended an account belonging to Project Veritas on Thursday, citing repeat violations of the site's policies against publishing private information.
A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to The Hill that the main Project Veritas account was permanently suspended, while founder James O'Keefe had his account temporarily locked. Several recent tweets on O'Keefe's timeline appeared to have been deleted by Thursday afternoon.
Twitter did not immediately return a request for comment regarding private information shared by Veritas and O'Keefe.
Founded in 2010, Project Veritas is a right-wing group that routinely published...
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Twitter permanently bans Project Veritas accountTwitter permanently banned an account on Thursday belonging to Project Veritas, a conservative group founded by controversial activist James O'Keefe.
The decision followed what a Twitter (TWTR) spokesperson described to CNN Business as repeated violations of the platform's policies prohibiting sharing — or threats of sharing — other people's private information without consent.
Twitter declined to say what specific tweets may have triggered the enforcement action. But in a post on Project Veritas's public Telegram channel Thursday afternoon, the group said the suspension occurred after it published a video...
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Twitter Goes After James O’Keefe And Project Veritas For Exposing Facebook CensorshipTwitter restricted journalist James O’Keefe’s Twitter account, as well as that of his founding organization Project Veritas on Thursday morning, citing violation of “rules against posting private information.”
This decision by Twitter comes after Project Veritas’s reporting on Facebook Vice President Guy Rosen saying the Big Tech platform intentionally “freezes,” via algorithms, comments where hate speech “may be.”
Project Veritas captured Rosen saying the following during a leaked internal Facebook call meeting. The clips were released Wednesday.
“We have a system that is able to freeze commenting on threads in...
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