Twitter has permanently suspended the account of conservative activist group Project Veritas, immediately after the organization released a video of a reporter interrogating a Facebook executive outside their home. The account of Project Veritas’s founder, James O’Keefe, was also temporarily locked.
In a statement published by Politico, O’Keefe said the offending video included footage of a reporter questioning Facebook vice president Guy Rosen, but denied that Project Veritas had published his private information. The question took place outside the executive’s home. O’Keefe said the organization would not be taking down the offending coverage. “It would be unconscionable for me to take down our reporting where it didn’t violate anyone’s privacy rights,” he told the NYT.
After temporarily locking his account, Twitter said “O’Keefe would need to delete a post that was in violation of its rules before he could tweet again.” Prior to its suspension, Project Veritas’s Twitter account was prominent on the platform and counted Donald Trump’s adult sons as followers.
One of its videos about allegations of voter fraud was called “a domestic, coordinated elite disinformation campaign” by researchers at Stanford University and the University of Washington, Politico notes.
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