Where? Can you provide a source?
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-senior-engineer-...
Twitter engineer: “Our jobs are at stake, he's a capitalist and we weren't really operating as capitalists, more like very socialist. Like we're all like commie as f*k.” ... “Twitter does not believe in free speech… Elon believes in free speech.”
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-executive-mocks-...
Twitter Lead Client Partner: “The rest of us who have been here believe in something that's good for the planet and not to give people free speech.” ... “People don’t know how to make a rational decision if you don’t put out -- correct things that are supposed to be out in the public, right?” ... “If we’re implementing all these rules…and Elon wants to dismantle them, then technically our ideology has led us to not making money because we’re not making money, and Elon wants to turn it the other way so that we can make money,”
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/undercover-video-twitter...
“if it was a pro-Trump thing and I’m anti-Trump… I banned his whole account… it’s at your discretion” ... Olinda Hassan, Policy Manager for Twitter Trust and Safety explains, “we’re trying to ‘down rank’… shitty people to not show up,” “we’re working [that] on right now”
Parnay Singh, Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer, on machine learning algorithms, “you have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneck…” “the majority of it are for Republicans”
Sure. Given links I'll do that. I just did right now since you are the first person to actually provide links.
The claim was:
> literal hours of continuous footage
None of the links you provided come even close to that claim. They are FULL of cuts. Many of them don't even include the question that was asked!
And even you took quotes out of context. The quote "Twitter does not believe in free speech" was qualified by a followup that free speech allows bullying and that Twitter does not believe in bullying because it's bad for business! Which is totally reasonable if you are an advertising platform.
Can you provide what I asked for? The source to "literal hours of continuous footage"?
Also, please stop giving quotes to your links. You've done exactly what people already claimed: taken things out of context to try to make them look worse than they really are. Folks can watch uncut videos themselves and make up their own minds. If these "literal hours of continuous footage" actually even exist.
You want people to transcribe every word for you now? I already did the web searches and wrote out snippets for you, so the topic of each video was clear. You could have done those things yourself which is why I'm the first to dish it up; it seems uncharitable to get mad about it and now accuse me of trying to manipulate you!
No relevant context was lost or hidden here. You've added more parts of what one guy said in one case, but that stuff isn't relevant to any point anyone is making in this thread. The discussion started with someone questioning the claim that Twitter employees had radical political beliefs. The Veritas videos were cited as evidence to the contrary and clearly prove the case - one of the employees literally claims Twitter staff were "commie as fuck".
It seems that you accept this original claim is true and are now arguing about something different - that you support their justifications. But their justifications for their radical politics was not a topic in this thread. Not writing out every word isn't an attempt to hide anything, as you saw, because the video is right there - with links for your convenience - ready for you to watch it, and, if you wish, start a separate discussion about their motives.
"Folks can watch uncut videos themselves and make up their own minds"
Only if they're willing to at least do a web search to get started!
All that you've got is a quotes taken out of context that distort the original meaning. Ignorable.
But if you'd rather be in denial about the nature of Twitter as an organization, go ahead and ignore all that. Your questions have been answered.
> literal hours of continuous footage
You gave links to highly edited videos. That is a fail.
Then why did the employees say what they said? In most conversations, you wouldn't have vitriol toward a certain set of political beliefs, yet the Twitter employees in the videos do express vitriol...whether the video is edited for the mass audience (like most news interviews/exposes are) or not.
Either way, our opinions here are moot. Twitter is a private company & it can do whatever it wants. If you don't like that, build your own social network. You can even recruit ex-Twitter employees...
Nonetheless, the Twitter employees still said what they said & expressed their intent to censor political opponents. You can point out that there is no raw footage for Project Veritas, even though all news organizations rarely provide raw footage & they all editorialize & they all edit, but it still does not change the fact of what was said...You might not like their editorialization or their editing, but what was said is still on video. You can call it "deceptive practices", but all news organizations engage in the same "deceptive practices".
I hope they change their policy after my call with them because they have an opportunity be a leading example of even more transparent journalism.
At the end of the day...Elon still owns Twitter, Twitter is having a record inflow of activity & active users, Elon fired the old staff, & many people are happy about it...you can't change that either. You can complain, but it still happened.
Again, it's all moot. These people lost their jobs & good riddance. Twitter is heading in a better direction now. I doubt any more Twitter employees will ramble on about how they are going to censor political opponents anymore.
Project Veritas is an American far-right activist group ... produces deceptively edited videos ... and has propagated disinformation and conspiracy theories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas
That's a hard fail right there - from a gullible disinfo peddler. No critical thinking skills.