Twitter employees admit that they use screening to filter/bury conservative posts

[Anonymous]

Twitter has refused to ban Donald J Trump despite his repeated violations of Twitters TOS. I’d say the right wing is doing just fine on Twitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Time to regulate Twitter along with the other tech giants to protect democracy?

https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/01/11/undercover-video-twitter-engineers-to-ban-a-way-of-talking-through-shadow-banning-algorithms-to-censor-opposing-political-opinions/

Steven Pierre, Twitter engineer explains “shadow banning,” says “it’s going to ban a way of talking”

Former Twitter software engineer Abhinav Vadrevu on shadow banning: “they just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it”

Former Twitter Content Review Agent Mo Norai explains banning process: “if it was a pro-Trump thing and I’m anti-Trump… I banned his whole account… it’s at your discretion”

When asked if banning process was an unwritten rule, Norai adds “Very. A lot of unwritten rules… It was never written it was more said”

Olinda Hassan, Policy Manager for Twitter Trust and Safety explains, “we’re trying to ‘down rank’… shitty people to not show up,” “we’re working [that] on right now”

“Shadow banning” to be used to stealthily target political views- former Twitter engineer says, “that’s a thing”

Censorship of certain political viewpoints to be automated via “machine learning” according to Twitter software engineer

Parnay Singh, Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer, on machine learning algorithms, “you have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneck…” “the majority of it are for Republicans”

does Jeff work at Twitter? seems this behavior is pervasive in the high tech world

[Anonymous]

I wonder if Jeff could put a price on doing this. How much do we need to pay him to filter out all of the truly terrible conservative posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh wait, this is Project Veritas. Never mind, same old stupid.

Yup. Even I recognized that name.

[Anonymous]

Perhaps conservatives should have better tweets?

[Anonymous]

Project Veritas is that fraudster and scammer James O'Keefe, who just got busted YET AGAIN a month ago when he had someone approach WaPo pretending to have been impregnated by Roy Moore or something.

He also heavily manipulates videos to try and make it seem like people said things they really didn't.

Twitter engineers, including the one in his "undercover video" have already debunked his claims in this video.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Project Veritas is that fraudster and scammer James O'Keefe, who just got busted YET AGAIN a month ago when he had someone approach WaPo pretending to have been impregnated by Roy Moore or something.

He also heavily manipulates videos to try and make it seem like people said things they really didn't.

Twitter engineers, including the one in his "undercover video" have already debunked his claims in this video.

The fact that someone at WaPo figured out what was going on is to their credit, but it doesn't make O'Keefe a 'fraudster'. What O'Keefe has uncovered at Twitter is really bad, but of course liberals think it's really good because they don't believe in dialogue - they want a narrative and if you don't buy into their narrative, they must control you by any means possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Project Veritas is that fraudster and scammer James O'Keefe, who just got busted YET AGAIN a month ago when he had someone approach WaPo pretending to have been impregnated by Roy Moore or something.

He also heavily manipulates videos to try and make it seem like people said things they really didn't.

Twitter engineers, including the one in his "undercover video" have already debunked his claims in this video.

I'm sure they have! LOL. Sorry, but you can't take a whole sentence and/or paragraph where the person speaks uninterrupted and edit it without obvious breaks.

[Anonymous]

Taking a look at the LinkedIn profile for the Twitter engineer that Veritas talked to I see he:

a.) had only been with Twitter a few months

b.) was only involved in infrastructure scaling, metrics and site availability, not things like user management or the software end

Quite likely Veritas latched on to some random Twitter employee and baited him into talking out his ass about something he knows nothing about.

That's sure what it looks like to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Project Veritas is that fraudster and scammer James O'Keefe, who just got busted YET AGAIN a month ago when he had someone approach WaPo pretending to have been impregnated by Roy Moore or something.

He also heavily manipulates videos to try and make it seem like people said things they really didn't.

Twitter engineers, including the one in his "undercover video" have already debunked his claims in this video.

The fact that someone at WaPo figured out what was going on is to their credit, but it doesn't make O'Keefe a 'fraudster'. What O'Keefe has uncovered at Twitter is really bad, but of course liberals think it's really good because they don't believe in dialogue - they want a narrative and if you don't buy into their narrative, they must control you by any means possible.

Oh, please. It has been proven that O'Keefe creatively edited and overdubbed the ACORN videos, likewise manipulated and misrepresented the Planned Parenthood videos, et cetera. NOTHING O'Keefe does is on the up and up. Nothing. Longtime fraudster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Taking a look at the LinkedIn profile for the Twitter engineer that Veritas talked to I see he:

a.) had only been with Twitter a few months

b.) was only involved in infrastructure scaling, metrics and site availability, not things like user management or the software end

Quite likely Veritas latched on to some random Twitter employee and baited him into talking out his ass about something he knows nothing about.

That's sure what it looks like to me.

He was responsible for AWS Cloudformation scripting and DevOps.
You CAN NOT do something like "shadow banning" via CloudFormation or DevOps.

[Anonymous]

If any of this were true then why do I still see tons of obnoxious #MAGA and #TCOT twitter posts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Taking a look at the LinkedIn profile for the Twitter engineer that Veritas talked to I see he:

a.) had only been with Twitter a few months

b.) was only involved in infrastructure scaling, metrics and site availability, not things like user management or the software end

Quite likely Veritas latched on to some random Twitter employee and baited him into talking out his ass about something he knows nothing about.

That's sure what it looks like to me.

They spoke with several Twitter employees. Not just one. And, the Senior Network Security Engineer has been there 10 years.
Seems as if this culture of secret censorship is pretty rampant at Twitter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Taking a look at the LinkedIn profile for the Twitter engineer that Veritas talked to I see he:

a.) had only been with Twitter a few months

b.) was only involved in infrastructure scaling, metrics and site availability, not things like user management or the software end

Quite likely Veritas latched on to some random Twitter employee and baited him into talking out his ass about something he knows nothing about.

That's sure what it looks like to me.

They spoke with several Twitter employees. Not just one. And, the Senior Network Security Engineer has been there 10 years.
Seems as if this culture of secret censorship is pretty rampant at Twitter.

Sorry but that's not something a Network Security Engineer would be involved in either.

My bet is that O'Keefe's people talked up their own scenario of "shadow banning" and the supposed mechanics of it earlier in the conversation rather than any of the Twitter folks bringing it up in response to anything.

[Anonymous]

This *has* to be BS.

Twitter doesn't even do a good job of policing the rampant bot accounts and accounts that are outright racist, sexist, neo-nazi, et cetera.

Thus it's not even remotely credible that they are banning conservatives for things far less egregious.