Twitter Permanently Bans Journalist James O’Keefe After He Releases Videos Damaging To CNN

Twitter permanently suspended conservative journalist and Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe on Thursday after he released his third installment of undercover videos exposing left-wing bias at CNN.

Twitter claimed without evidence that O’Keefe was “violating the Twitter Rules on platform manipulation and spam.”

“As outlined in our policy on platform manipulation and spam, ‘You can’t mislead others on Twitter by operating fake accounts,’ and ‘you can’t artificially amplify or disrupt conversations through the use of multiple accounts,’” Twitter said.

O’Keefe immediately released a statement saying that he was suing the platform, calling their statement accusing him of “operating fake accounts” false.

“I am suing Twitter for defamation because they said, I, James O’Keefe, ‘operated fake accounts.’ This is false, this is defamatory, and they will pay,” O’Keefe said. “Section 230 may have protected them before, but it will not protect them from me. The complaint will be filed Monday.”

Donald Trump Jr. responded to Twitter’s latest crackdown against conservatives by writing on Twitter: “In case you haven’t figured out how it works by now… @CNN spreads propaganda to elect Democrats [and] then @Twitter runs interference to protect CNN. They’re all on the same team.”

In case you haven’t figured out how it works by now…@CNN spreads propaganda to elect Democrats

And then @Twitter runs interference to protect CNN.

They’re all on the same team. https://t.co/xPi2CbOdxm

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 15, 2021

“After the latest round of hidden camera videos embarrassing to CNN were released, @JamesOKeefeIII has been permanently banned from Twitter,” journalist Andy Ngo wrote on Twitter. “The @Project_Veritas account was also recently banned. This is how big tech works with liberal corporate media to take down challengers.”

After the latest round of hidden camera videos embarrassing to CNN were released, @JamesOKeefeIII has been permanently banned from Twitter. The @Project_Veritas account was also recently banned. This is how big tech works with liberal corporate media to take down challengers.

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) April 15, 2021

O’Keefe released video footage this week of CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester claiming that the network worked to get former President Donald Trump out of office and that they create “propaganda.”

Chester said:

• “Look what we did, we [CNN] got Trump out. I am 100% going to say it, and I 100% believe that if it wasn’t for CNN, I don’t know that Trump would have got voted out…I came to CNN because I wanted to be a part of that.”
• “It’s going to be our [CNN’s] focus. Like our focus was to get Trump out of office, right? Without saying it, that’s what it was, right? So, our next thing is going to be climate change awareness.”
• “[Trump’s] hand was shaking or whatever, I think. We brought in so many medical people to tell a story that was all speculation — that he was neurologically damaged, and he was losing it. He’s unfit to — you know, whatever. We were creating a story there that we didn’t know anything about. That’s what — I think that’s propaganda.”

Chester also said that the network’s reporters manipulate people into saying what the reporters want them to say and that the network mostly put people on television who have “a proven track record of taking the bait.”

On Thursday, O’Keefe released videos showing Chester saying that the network was “trying to help BLM” and seemed to suggest that the race of individuals involved in crimes played a part in how much coverage the incident received on the network.

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