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Public revenge? U.S. conservative group’s account permanently blocked for revealing shady tweets that clamp down on speech

 2021年2月14日

Project Veritas, a conservative organization in the United States, released confidential internal video messages from Twitter and Facebook last month. Project Veritas has been suspended permanently by Twitter and its founder’s account has also been temporarily blocked. Twitter claims that the organization has “repeatedly violated” Twitter’s rules on sharing the privacy of others’ messages.

“On Jan. 18, the Truth Project released confidential video footage of an internal Twitter meeting that showed the company’s founder, Jack Dorsey, and executives threatening further censorship after Twitter blocked the accounts of former President Trump and several conservatives. The video clip, which surfaced on January 31, leaked that Facebook CEO Zuckerberg intends to cooperate with the Biden administration on major issues, and that Facebook executives also admit to having “too much power.

A Twitter spokesman said the @Project_Veritas account was permanently suspended for violating its “private messaging policy,” and the project’s director, James O’Keefe, was also blocked for violating the same policy.

The internal video footage that was leaked from Twitter is still available on YouTube.

Previously, Reuters last month revealed that technology giants such as Google, Facebook and Twitter were working behind the scenes to place people in senior positions on Biden’s team after the U.S. election in order to influence the U.S. government to make policies in their favor.

Zuckerberg is accused of investing huge sums of money in key swing states to interfere in the U.S. election, and he attended a Senate hearing via video message last November 17 to present a statement on the way to censor speech, such as the blocking of the Biden father-son scandal.

The Wall Street Journal further reported on January 25 that in 2020 technology industry lobbying spending, Facebook reigned supreme with nearly $20 million (about NT$560 million) to meet the new administration and new scrutiny of their business with a sprinkling of silver bullet tactics.