PHOTO OF O’KEEFE BY GAGE SKIDMORE, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, PHOTO OF DORSEY BY CELLANR, WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, PHOTO OF JOHNSON BY PETER DUKE
Guerrilla journalist James O’Keefe released his latest bombshell undercover video today, exposing Twitter’s so-called “shadow banning” of conservative users.
The 15-minute video features eight Twitter employees – both current and former – candidly discussing the social media giant’s efforts to surreptitiously suppress content for political reasons:
Conservatives have long suspected Twitter to engage in the practice of “shadow banning,” or toying with algorithms to limit an account’s reach without its owner knowing.
In one clip, Pranay Singh, a Direct Messaging Engineer at Twitter, describes the process of choosing which accounts to target: “you look for ‘Trump,’ or ‘America,’ or any of like, five thousand, like, keywords to describe a redneck.”
Software Engineer Steven Pierre then acknowledges that his employer is “not going to ban the mindset” of these accounts; rather, “it’s going to ban, like, a way of talking.”
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The chilling revelations from O’Keefe’s video appear to corroborate key claims in GotNews Editor-in-Chief Charles C. Johnson’s free speech lawsuit against Twitter, which he filed on Monday in California Superior Court.
Johnson’s lawsuit alleges that “Twitter has repeatedly banned conservative users under the guise of stopping harassment, but fails to do the same when the harassers have a liberal viewpoint,” a belief shared by FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.
Citing leaked internal Twitter emails published in BuzzFeed last month, which document how Johnson’s own account was suspended arbitrarily and without cause, the lawsuit argues “As such, and because Twitter has admitted the Plaintiffs did not violate their Twitter rules, Plaintiff has reason to and does believe that his accounts were banned as a result of Twitter’s bias against those who promote conservative political views.”
Johnson has also launched a crowdfunding campaign for his lawsuit, describing the case as “your last chance to stop Twitter’s management from stealing the next election by stopping them in court.”
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