{"id":343373,"date":"2018-01-11T23:32:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-twitter-caught-silencing-okeefe-amid-censorship-expose\/"},"modified":"2018-01-11T23:32:14","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:32:14","slug":"prison-planet-com-twitter-caught-silencing-okeefe-amid-censorship-expose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-twitter-caught-silencing-okeefe-amid-censorship-expose\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Twitter Caught Silencing O\u2019Keefe Amid Censorship Expose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>With O\u2019Keefe suspension, Twitter confirms authenticity of Project Veritas videos<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kit Daniels<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>January 11, 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Twitter unblocked James O\u2019Keefe\u2019s account after suffering massive backlash for silencing the Project Veritas founder as his expose on Twitter\u2019s political censorship started going viral.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Before the suspension, O\u2019Keefe was gaining nearly 10,000 Twitter followers a day after his journalists caught Twitter engineers on tape bragging about how the social media site \u201cshadow bans\u201d non-liberal viewpoints and was trying to topple President Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The suspension was likely an attempt by Twitter to bury the news story exposing company practices, but Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was ultimately bombarded with over 20,000 tweets demanding he lift O\u2019Keefe\u2019s suspension.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cTwitter is trying to block our journalism,\u201d O\u2019Keefe said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the sting videos, Twitter engineers explains the steps they were taking to censor political content they didn\u2019t like, including a process called \u201cshadow banning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cOne strategy is to shadow ban so you have ultimate control,\u201d said former Twitter employee Abhinov Vadrevu. \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 <\/span><!-- [donotprint] --><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ppani\">\n<li>A d v e r t i s e m e n t<\/li>\n<li\/><\/ul>\n<p><!-- [\/donotprint] --><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cSo they just think that no one is engaging with their content, when in reality, no one is seeing it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The mainstream media has used a similar tactic for years by burying news stories that painted establishment luminaries in a bad light, such as the attempts to downplay Hillary Clinton\u2019s health issues during the 2016 presidential campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But Twitter is apparently taking this tactic one step further by automating censorship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cEvery single conversation is going to be rated by a machine and the machine is going to say whether or not it\u2019s a positive thing or a negative&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/twitter-caught-silencing-okeefe-amid-censorship-expose.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With O\u2019Keefe suspension, Twitter confirms authenticity of Project Veritas videos Kit DanielsPrison Planet.comJanuary 11, 2018 Twitter unblocked James O\u2019Keefe\u2019s account after suffering massive backlash for silencing the Project Veritas founder as his expose on Twitter\u2019s political censorship started going viral. Before the suspension, O\u2019Keefe was gaining nearly 10,000 Twitter followers a day after his journalists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-343373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}