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

Posted by msmash on from the steering-clear dept.

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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  1. How does someone "seem to say" something? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Good to see Msmash finally found an adequately editorialized source for this story after a week of pretending it didn't exist.

    1. Re:How does someone "seem to say" something? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I was thinking the same thing. Actually responded to asking why the original wasn't being posted with saying no "confirmed sources" despite posting stories from literal personal blogs before. But once there's something refuting it, "sure, now I'll report on it" even if the refute is pretty sad and pathetic. (As pointed out by another "no, we can't access the data on our own servers which is not privately encrypted in any way shape or form")

      Apparently project veritas is good enough for tech crunch, but not for the "high" standards of slashdot. /sarcasm

      Msmash, you're a partisan hack who has no business working in journalism, no matter how tangential. And for pointing this out, I bet my post gets shadow hidden where it won't even show up when you set the filter to -1. But remember, slashdot doesn't delete posts without a court order. /sarcasm

  2. Re:Are you going to believe us or your lying eyes? by bobbied · · Score: 1, Troll

    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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  3. Re:Hold on by AmiMoJo · · Score: 0, Troll

    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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  4. Re:Hold on by ichthus · · Score: 1, Troll

    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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