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Twitter suspended a well-known conservative provocateur Thursday
I don't use Twitter as I always thought it was another lefty site.. Maybe the article kind of shows that..
Twitter suspended a well-known conservative provocateur Thursday, the latest in a series of decisions that many on the right see as a concerted effort by the social media platform to censor dissenting voices.
James O?Keefe, the founder of investigative site Project Veritas, was suspended shortly after posting a video of a CNN director describing his work as "propaganda" and boasting that the network "got Trump out." Twitter claimed O?Keefe was suspended for "platform manipulation and spam," a vague allegation O?Keefe denies.
The ban comes as a growing number of politicians have called for increased government regulation of social media sites. Many Republicans are calling for changes to the laws that govern what content social media sites can bar from their platforms.
Recent suspensions of conservative accounts have convinced many Republicans that Twitter?s rules are a cover for ideologically motivated bans.
Twitter and Facebook often use their privacy standards to justify censoring news stories. Journalist Jason Whitlock was locked out of his Twitter account on April 9 after criticizing a Black Lives Matter founder following a New York Post story about her ritzy house. Facebook has prevented users from sharing links to that story on its Messenger app. Both platforms claimed they were protecting private citizens from harassment.
I don't use Twitter as I always thought it was another lefty site.. Maybe the article kind of shows that..
Twitter suspended a well-known conservative provocateur Thursday, the latest in a series of decisions that many on the right see as a concerted effort by the social media platform to censor dissenting voices.
James O?Keefe, the founder of investigative site Project Veritas, was suspended shortly after posting a video of a CNN director describing his work as "propaganda" and boasting that the network "got Trump out." Twitter claimed O?Keefe was suspended for "platform manipulation and spam," a vague allegation O?Keefe denies.
The ban comes as a growing number of politicians have called for increased government regulation of social media sites. Many Republicans are calling for changes to the laws that govern what content social media sites can bar from their platforms.
Recent suspensions of conservative accounts have convinced many Republicans that Twitter?s rules are a cover for ideologically motivated bans.
Twitter and Facebook often use their privacy standards to justify censoring news stories. Journalist Jason Whitlock was locked out of his Twitter account on April 9 after criticizing a Black Lives Matter founder following a New York Post story about her ritzy house. Facebook has prevented users from sharing links to that story on its Messenger app. Both platforms claimed they were protecting private citizens from harassment.
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