James O’Keefe: Twitter’s Censorship Algorithm Targets ‘Breitbart Audience’

Breitbart ^ | 15 Jan 2018 | Robert Kraychik

[Texas Fossil]

Twitter’s algorithms for political censorship target language and images — such as “America” and the American flag — associated with Breitbart News’s audience, said Project Veritas President James O’Keefe on Monday.

O’Keefe’s remarks on Twitter came during a SiriusXM Breitbart News Tonight interview with Breitbart News’s Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

Censorial algorithms at Twitter, said O’Keefe, associate certain terms and sentiments with automated behaviors in an ostensible effort to silence bots across the platform: “[Twitter has] an algorithm that finds correlative words associated with people like the Breitbart audience. So if you post about guns, if you like the American flag, if you use the word ‘America,’ if you are a self-described ‘redneck,’ they actually target these people. These are not racists, or white supremacists, or Nazis — these are just moderate conservative ideas.”

[Texas Fossil]

Guess this should surprise no one. But the Twitter arrogance factor they exhibit is huge.

[ptsal]

Lucky for Jack that “profit” is NOT in their business model.

Hard to make a Harvard Business School white paper supporting the economic demand for propaganda and censorship.      /s

[barbarianbabs]

Apparently twitter has kept all underage photos (you can join twitter at age 13) of sexting.

[Texas Fossil]

They keep everything. Nothing is ever removed.

It would not surprise me if reality was they kept what you stated too.

[ctdonath2]

Had my Twitter account locked a couple days ago, after a few [reasonable conservative] posts - nothing objectionable, just fitting with the apparently & admitted automatic categorization of “redneck”. Since a Twitter engineer admitted they don’t believe “rednecks” actually exist, I was subjected to about 5 minutes of “prove you’re not an AI/bot” before it let me back on. Seriously, nothing I posted could have been construed as “offensive”, just indicative of a southern/right-wing viewpoint, yet suddenly I had to prove I’m human.

[HombreSecreto]

C’mon Sessions!

Charge Twitter under RICO and seize the company under the asset forfeiture rules.

Then make whispers about Google.

[GOPJ]

We need to be careful... democrats are totalitarians. If they get control they’ll do what they can to harm us... Twitter is only a small part of who they are...

[bitt]

p

[Texas Fossil]

Profit?

It is all about the agenda. It does include money and power.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

I’m worried that the public’s reaction to the Twitter/Facebook social engineering might lead to property damage or front lawn protests...

[Texas Fossil]

smile.

Not likely.

Especially from the conservative elements that have been targeted.

But when the Leftist take this far enough? Who knows.

[SaraJohnson]

When they get total control, they will murder us.

[wintertime]

Re: money and power.

They already have that. The next goal is their totalitarian agenda.

[wintertime]

Re: Murder

They would have already. They just can’t get away with it....(Yet).

[Jacquerie]

That is not an exaggeration. Imagine the proscriptions today if Hillary won!

[Texas Fossil]

Agree.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

They’re trying to “ban a way of talking,” they say.

Can you say, “Newspeak?” I knew you could.

Double plus ungood.

[Texas Fossil]

Straight out of 1984.

[GOPJ]

History has lessons for what happens to innocents living under delusional totalitarians... and yes, it could happen here.