The move against the conservative activist organization comes amid a broader crackdown by the social media giant on those promoting misinformation.
The conservative activist organization Project Veritas was suspended from Twitter on Thursday for violating platform rules.
The account was “permanently suspended for repeated violations of Twitter’s private information policy,” a Twitter spokesperson said.
The group’s founder, James O’Keefe, had his account temporarily locked, also for violation of the private information policy. “The account owner is required to delete the violative Tweet to regain access to their account,” the spokesperson said.
O’Keefe on Thursday explained his and Project Veritas’ positions.
“Late last night, Twitter locked Project Veritas’s and my Twitter accounts, claiming we violated Twitter Guidelines by posting a video of our journalists asking questions of Facebook’s Vice President Guy Rosen which Rosen refused to answer,” he said in an emailed statement. “Twitter claimed the video published private information, which is false. Twitter invited Project Veritas to, and we did, appeal that decision with Twitter. In an apparent act of retaliation for daring to question their authority, Twitter responded to our appeal by suspending our account, continuing to tell us that Project Veritas could delete the tweet and have our account reinstated.”
O’Keefe added that he would not delete the Tweet.
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