{"id":92698,"date":"2018-01-14T14:39:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T18:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=92698"},"modified":"2018-01-14T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T18:39:03","slug":"bombshell-report-twitter-employees-admit-to-censoring-conservatives-banning-them-for-political-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=92698","title":{"rendered":"BOMBSHELL REPORT: Twitter Employees Admit To Censoring Conservatives, Banning Them For Political Reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

“If it was a pro-Trump thing and I\u2019m anti-Trump\u2026 I banned his whole account.”<\/h2>\n

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By\u00a0 RYAN SAAVEDRA
\nThe Daily Wire<\/p>\n

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released a bombshell report on Thursday that shows Twitter employees admitting to censoring right-leaning accounts, including banning them from the network because they do not agree with their political views.<\/p>\n

The report, based on undercover videos, shows Twitter employees admitting that they “shadow ban” right-leaning accounts, which essentially bans them from the platform without letting them know that they have been banned while allowing left-leaning accounts to slip through without the same scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Another Twitter employee, Pranay Singh, admitted that the majority of their algorithms are geared in such a manner that they target people with certain political views.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say majority of it are for Republicans,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n

Key takeaways from James O’Keefe’s\u00a0report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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  • Steven Pierre, Twitter engineer explains \u201cshadow banning,\u201d says \u201cit\u2019s going to ban a way of talking\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Former Twitter software engineer Abhinav Vadrevu on shadow banning: \u201cthey just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Former Twitter Content Review Agent Mo Norai explains banning process: \u201cif it was a pro-Trump thing and I\u2019m anti-Trump\u2026 I banned his whole account\u2026 it\u2019s at your discretion\u201d<\/li>\n
  • When asked if banning process was an unwritten rule, Norai adds \u201cVery. A lot of unwritten rules\u2026 It was never written it was more said\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Olinda Hassan, Policy Manager for Twitter Trust and Safety explains, \u201cwe\u2019re trying to \u2018down rank\u2019\u2026 shitty people to not show up,\u201d \u201cwe\u2019re working [that] on right now\u201d<\/li>\n
  • \u201cShadow banning\u201d to be used to stealthily target political views- former Twitter engineer says, \u201cthat\u2019s a thing\u201d<\/li>\n
  • Censorship of certain political viewpoints to be automated via \u201cmachine learning\u201d according to Twitter software engineer<\/li>\n
  • Parnay Singh, Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer, on machine learning algorithms, \u201cyou have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneck\u2026\u201d \u201cthe majority of it are for Republicans\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    WATCH:<\/p>\n