Twitter Bans James O’Keefe For “Platform Manipulation”

April 15, 2021 Social Media, Trump cultists

The Daily Dot reports:

James O’Keefe, the controversial founder of the conservative outlet Project Veritas, was suspended from Twitter on Thursday. O’Keefe, who boasted more than 900,000 followers, claimed in a post on Facebook that the suspension was linked to his recent reporting on CNN.

In a statement to the Daily Dot, a Twitter spokesperson confirmed that O’Keefe had been permanently suspended for violating rules regarding “platform manipulation and spam.”

The Twitter account for Project Veritas was suspended in February as well for “repeated violations of Twitter’s private information policy.”

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Project Veritas last appeared on JMG in November 2020 when they presented a Pennsylvania mailman who claimed to have witnessed ballot fraud. The mailman later admitted he’d made the story up.

O’Keefe, as you may recall, has conducted multiple similar stunts, most of which went nowhere due to his group’s “comical incompetence” – as one article characterized them.

Last year he appeared on JMG when it was revealed that Erik Prince’s outfit had attempted to train Project Veritas staffers, but they were “too stupid to learn.”

In 2018, O’Keefe claimed that Trump had repeatedly asked him to break into Columbia University and steal Barack Obama’s student transcripts. In 2017, O’Keefe flamed out spectacularly when he attempted to sting the Washington Post with a fake Roy Moore accuser.

Also in 2017, O’Keefe was banned from soliciting donations in Florida due to his criminal record. Despite that, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas presented him with a right wing group’s “Impact Award” during a ceremony held that month at Trump’s DC hotel.

In 2010, O’Keefe and three collaborators pleaded guilty to breaking into the office of then-Sen. Mary Landrieu. O’Keefe was sentenced to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service.



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