Twitter Hits Back Again at Claims That Its Employees Monitor Direct Messages (techcrunch.com)

From a report on TechCrunch: Twitter is pushing back against claims made by conservative activist group Project Veritas that its employees monitor private user data, including direct messages. In a statement to BuzzFeed News, a Twitter representative said "we do not proactively review DMs. Period. A limited number of employees have access to such information, for legitimate work purposes, and we enforce strict access protocols for those employees." Last week, Project Veritas, which produces undercover sting operations that purportedly expose liberal biases at media companies and other organizations, posted footage that appeared to show Twitter engineers claiming that teams of employees look at users' private data. One engineer seemed to say that Twitter can hand over President Donald Trump's data, including deleted tweets and direct messages, to the Department of Justice.

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Re:No shit

[tbannist]

This isn't a "PR war". It's a disclosure. It's cluing the rubes into what the implications of all of this are. A lot of them don't get it. They aren't informed enough to consent to the anal cavity search you seem so fond of.

No, it's not. It's just unethical propagandists engaged in scaremongering to try and trick people into voting for Republicans.

It's the same scaremongering editing they used in their previous videos where they take things out of context and play scary music to make it seem sinister.

Of course, if you believe them the last tie they tricked you, you'll probably believe them this time too.