{"id":343354,"date":"2018-01-11T19:28:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T18:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/twitter-engineers-admit-censoring-conservatives\/"},"modified":"2018-01-11T19:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T18:28:13","slug":"twitter-engineers-admit-censoring-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/twitter-engineers-admit-censoring-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Engineers Admit Censoring Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Uses keywords like \u201cAmerica\u201d and \u201cTrump\u201d to silence opposing views<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>January 11, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.infowars.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/110118twitter1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\"><strong>In what represents a chokeslam of an expos\u00e9, Project Veritas has released undercover video of Twitter engineers admitting that they deliberately censor conservative opinions and are implementing a way of relegating \u201cshitty people\u201d so their content is shadow banned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">In the video, current and former Twitter employees confirm virtually everything that conservatives have long suspected about the left-wing company silencing people on the right.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/64gTjdUrDFQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\"><strong>Key quotes include;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Olinda Hassan, Policy Manager for Twitter Trust and Safety, admits that Twitter is implementing software algorithms that down rank conservatives so \u201cshitty people to not show up\u201d on people\u2019s timelines.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cThe idea of a shadow ban is that you ban someone but they don\u2019t know they\u2019ve been banned, because they keep posting and no one sees their content,\u201d says former Twitter software engineer Abhinov Vadrevu. \u201cSo they just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Parnay Singh, Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer, reveals that the company\u2019s machine learning algorithms are programmed with \u201cfive thousand keywords to describe a redneck,\u201d which include words like Trump, America, as well as images of the U.S. flag, guns and Christian crosses and these terms are used to delete \u201cbot\u201d accounts as well as down rank conservatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Singh also revealed that the U.S. government routinely pressures Twitter to take down Julian Assange\u2019s account and that this is the reason he isn\u2019t verified Singh also says that governments ask Twitter to remove accounts belonging to other public figures because they don\u2019t like their political views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Former Twitter Content Review Agent Mo Norai admits that Twitter employees have the power to ban accounts if they&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/bombshell-undercover-video-twitter-engineers-admit-censoring-conservatives.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uses keywords like \u201cAmerica\u201d and \u201cTrump\u201d to silence opposing views Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comJanuary 11, 2018 In what represents a chokeslam of an expos\u00e9, Project Veritas has released undercover video of Twitter engineers admitting that they deliberately censor conservative opinions and are implementing a way of relegating \u201cshitty people\u201d so their content is shadow banned. 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