Project Veritas Bombshell: Twitter Engineers Explain How They 'Shadow Ban' Conservatives, from @PJMedia_com: https://t.co/93XSRktwvJ pic.twitter.com/0vc3bHLuAk
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) January 11, 2018
After further questions, Singh proceeded to admit that the majority of algorithms target conservative users:
America’s Response to the Leaked Video
Since the exposure of Twitter’s censorship methods, they have attempted to do damage control. The company released a public statement claiming that the aforementioned footage of Singh’s remarks were edited.
Moreover, Twitter alleged that their company is “committed to enforcing our rules without bias and empowering every voice on our platform, in accordance with the Twitter Rules.”
Conservatives do not appear to believe Twitter’s public statement regarding empowerment and a lack of bias. Prior to Project Verita’s leaked video, talk of conservative censorship was afloat. In the eyes of many people, Singh’s remarks serve as confirmation of such. Right leaning Americans have also made the case that purposefully censoring a group of people violates their First Amendment rights. However, Twitter still maintains that they “do not” shadowban users’ accounts.
