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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.
Twitter has already lost this.. They need to shut up and let Veritas take their short lived victory lap... They are in a no win situation, not knowing what other video Veritas has and can release to counter what ever PR spin they try. Best to let the story die a natural death...
The only exception to this is if they KNOW more video is on it's way, in which case, they are playing a game of chicken with an opponent who has nothing to lose. Personally, unless the damage coming is dire and you know it, it's best not to play this game.
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No, Project Veritas films people and edits the film to be highly misleading and unrepresentative.
James O'Keefe has been caught doing this repeatedly. All the big stories he based off videos were later shown to be fake news. Ars Technica already debunked this video.
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You mean this?. You call that a debunking? It's a DC-based reporter playing the part of Twitter apologist, and is nothing more than his opinion on the published video. Yeah, watch this... I just debunked the debunking.
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