Twitter Locks James O'Keefe, Project Veritas Out of Their Accounts

Twitter locked the accounts for Project Veritas and the watchdog's founder, James O'Keefe.

Published: 2/11/2021, 2:21:02 PM EST

Twitter Locks James O'Keefe, Project Veritas Out of Their Accounts — James O’Keefe, founder and president of the non-profit Project Veritas, in New York, on Oct. 31, 2017. (Benjamin Chasteen/The Epoch Times)

Twitter locked the accounts for Project Veritas and the watchdog's founder, James O'Keefe, after they released a video with a Facebook official about the social media website's policies.

In a post on Telegram, the conservative group posted screenshots from its Twitter account, saying, "We've temporarily limited some of your account features."

The social media company said Project Veritas, according to the screenshot, violated its rules "against posting private information."

A video published on YouTube Wednesday—and is still available—included Project Veritas' Christian Hartsock confronting Facebook executive Guy Rosen apparently outside his home.

Project Veritas also captured Rosen apparently saying during an internal Facebook call meeting: “We have a system that is able to freeze commenting on threads in cases where our systems are detecting that there may be a thread that has hate speech or violence. … These are all things we’ve built over the past three-four years as part of our investments into the integrity space, our efforts to protect the election.”

About a month ago, Project Veritas released a clip that appears to show Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey—in a leaked video call—talking about deleting more accounts after former President Donald Trump was banned.

“We know we are focused on one account right now, but this is going to be much bigger than just one account, and it’s going to go on for much longer than just this day, this week, the next few weeks, going on beyond inauguration,” Dorsey said in the video. “We have to expect that. We have to be ready for that.”

Dorsey then referenced actions that were taken against QAnon-related accounts, saying it is part of a "broader approach."

"You know, the U.S. is extremely divided. Our platform is showing that every single day," Dorsey continued to say. "And our role is to protect the integrity of that conversation and do what we can to make sure that no one is being harmed based off that. And that is our focus."

In recent months, Twitter and Facebook have come under fire for what critics say is an attempt to censor conservatives or viewpoints the companies deem outside the mainstream. As a result, alternative social media platforms—such as the aforementioned Telegram, Gab, and MeWe—have seen spikes in users in recent weeks.

Telegram became the No. 1 non-game app downloaded worldwide in January via the Apple Store.

The Epoch Times reached out to Twitter for comment.

From The Epoch Times