Last week, Project Veritas and James O'Keefe dropped the first two parts of their new undercover series which exposed rampant political bias and generally creepy behavior at Twitter. We covered both of them here:
O'Keefe Strikes Again: Twitter Engineer Admits Willingness To Share Trump DMs Without A Warrant
Project Veritas Exposes Twitter "Shadow Banning", Blocking Opposing Views
Now, earlier this morning, O'Keefe dropped part 3 of the series which takes the Twitter creepiness to a whole new level. Among other things, four Twitter engineers openly talk about a team of 300-400 people working at Twitter whose sole role is to review your "private" direct messages to create a more complete profile of your personal interests which can be sold to advertisers.
Per the exchange below, Clay Haynes, who was featured in part one of the Twitter exposé, admitted in a January 6, 2018 meeting that Twitter has hired hundreds employees with the express purpose of looking at these “d*ck pics,” stating:
“There’s teams dedicated to it. I mean, we’re talking, we’re talking three or four… at least, three or four hundred people… Yes, they’re paid to look at d*ck pics.”
“I’ve seen way more penises than I’ve ever wanted to see in my life.”
“That’s, yeah… You know, actually… This sounds horrible, but I’m actually glad and fortunate it’s just dicks, it’s just blow job pictures, it’s just that type of stuff.”
Meanwhile, Pranay Singh, a Direct Messaging Engineer for Twitter corroborated Haynes claims and even joked about using someone's private messages for blackmail purposes:
“Everything you send is stored on my server… So all your sex messages and you, like, d*ck pics are on my server now…”
“All your illegitimate wives and, like, all the girls you’ve been f*cking around with, they’re are on my server now… I’m going to send it to your wife, she’s going use it in your divorce.”
“So, what happens is like, you like, write something or post pictures on line, they never go away… Because even after you send them, people are like analyzing them, to see what you are interested in, to see what you are talking about. And they sell that data.”
BREAKING: HUNDREDS of Twitter Employees Paid to View "Everything You Post Online" Including Private "Sex Messages"
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) January 15, 2018
FULL VIDEO: https://t.co/73Ub3LjjU2 pic.twitter.com/YZaS9GrJTv
So, just how intrusive is Twitter? Singh continues...
Twitter Engineer: "So what happens is, like, when you, like, write stuff of when you post pictures online, they never go away. Like, they're always on there."
"Even after you send them, people are analyzing them, to see what you're interested in, to see what you're talking about, and they sell that data."
PV Journalist: "They sell it to who, like advertisers?"
Twitter Engineer: "Advertisers..."
PV Journalist: "Wait, you're talking about just regular tweets or the DMs? Or both?"
Twitter Engineer: "Everything. Anything you post online..."
PV Journalist: "Wow. So even what you think is private, direct message..."
Twitter Engineer: "Yeah, it's all analyzed."
Finally, perhaps no one summarizes this Project Veritas series better than one of Twitter's own engineers: "It is a creepy Big Brother. It’s like a level… I don’t want to say it freaks me out, but it disturbs me."
Comments
Surveillance is liberty!!
https://olduvai.ca
Welcome to the Matrix
In reply to Surveillance is liberty!!… by skbull44
Twitter= "Shithole"
In reply to Welcome to the Matrix by knukles
Hey Twitter..... John McAfee still got his?
In reply to Twitter= Shithole by Truther
aaaaaaaand I will never have a Twitter or Fakebook account for this very reason.
Seriously, why GIVE them blackmail material?
In reply to Hey Twitter..... John McAfee… by YUNOSELL
I'm making over $14k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... http://disq.us/url?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.Jobzon3.com%3Ab8eR_DQLwGRPVGtFv…
In reply to aaaaaaaand I will never have… by NugginFuts
Slightly off topic, but I only have so much tolerance for people uselessly using the word LIKE, before I lose all respect and don't want to hear another word out of them. If they do it while applying for a job or apartment or such....well, good luck somewhere else.
In reply to More proof that humans are… by BokkeDavola
How about people whose voice inflection is used to end every statement as if it were a question?
In reply to Slightly off topic, but I… by RAT005
"I's keep using it. I don't think the really outrageous stuff is going to come out for quite a while...."
In reply to How about people whose voice… by serotonindumptruck
i for my part am still waiting for the capitalist process to kick in and enrich the spectre with privacy-respecting competitors of twatter, fuckbook and instaporn.
In reply to "I's keep using it. I don't… by JRobby
"We aren't as creepy as Facebook or Google, but we know some stuff..."
Just imagine how creepy Fakebook and Google are...
What's equally disturbing however, is the typical ZH-user's attitude towards "no regulation," "freedom of enterprise" and let the market sort it out."
As you can hear from 4:25 in the video, you don't even have to have a Twitter account but they still harvest data from you. The same goes for the Youtube that anyone has clicked in order to watch James O'Keefe's latest video.
This is what you get when you don't regulate anything...
In reply to i for my part am still… by giovanni_f
Ever heard of the SEC? EPA? CFTC? They are some regulating motherfuckers cept'n they don't have any "or else" In other words you are full of shit. The only reason these folks are not regulated is because they are doing government work buzzy. The federal government is the biggest polluter on the planet bar none, do you see any regulating going on? That's right, government and their proxy are not regulated, hence Facebook, Google, et al.
In reply to We anrn't as creepy as… by Klassenfeind
I just like, totally like, posted a picture of a white russian, and like now I get all these milk and vodka coupons being sent to my e-mail man. Twitter rules!
In reply to Ever heard of the SEC? EPA?… by booboo
Like banks selling off regulated fraudulent loans?
Like the regulated COMEX and LBMA?
I could go on for days...
In reply to We anrn't as creepy as… by Klassenfeind
Beat them, they are asking for it.
In reply to How about people whose voice… by serotonindumptruck
Corporations abusing their power.... nah it couldn't be....
In reply to Beat them, they are asking… by SilverDOG
JethroBodien - "Corporations abusing their power.... nah it couldn't be...."
What do you think Fascism is?
In reply to Corporations abusing their… by JethroBodien
Fascism is the state (the people) determining the operations of the corporations. What we have is hyper-Capitalism where the moneyed interests determine everything.
Not that it matters, as most of you wouldn't be charge of anything anyways.
The plus side of all of this surveillance is that these files are permanent, as in they can not be destroyed completely once they are created. Which means there's a trail of evidence for criminal acts that the NSA is holding onto somewhere. If you're aware of how to use the FOIA and the dates and locations of said incidents, you can easily retrieve the evidence and put the perpetrators in prison for a very long time.
The cops love hearing that, because asset forfeiture, and if you're one of the victims of this sort of bullying, odds are that you're not the one with all of the assets to be seized.
Checkmate faggots, gotcha.
Someone owes me a shit load of money.
In reply to JethroBodien - "Corporations… by Battlefield USA
Easy... Jethro only grajated the 6th grade.
In reply to JethroBodien - "Corporations… by Battlefield USA
Rising intonation annoys me. I call it the Valley Girl accent.
In reply to How about people whose voice… by serotonindumptruck
so, like, Caroline Kennedy, she's like not your biggest fave?
In reply to Slightly off topic, but I… by RAT005
Jesus, I thought "like" was almost dead as an "uhm".
My peeve is "No" before agreeing with what has been said.
If you listen for it be cautious as one may begin reaching for their own hair removal or a weapon.
The prevalence of negating what has been said, is massive, insulting, and retarded.
Parallel to this, the same individuals includes "Y'know" a multitude of times within
sentences y'know, preface to y'know, and y'know y'know right?
I do not hesitate to say sharply, "If I already know what you are saying, stop speaking."
I am not kidding.
In reply to Slightly off topic, but I… by RAT005
No shit! Wait, I meant like hells yeah. You know what I mean?
In reply to Jesus, I thought "like" was… by SilverDOG
So it's like you don't have a problem with people starting every sentence with so?
In reply to Jesus, I thought "like" was… by SilverDOG
My usual interjection, if there is one, is "but...fucking." I keep it, because I think every conversation can use a little buttfucking in it.
In reply to Jesus, I thought "like" was… by SilverDOG
but like...dude. gnome sayin?
In reply to Slightly off topic, but I… by RAT005
Double negatives. Ugh.
In reply to Slightly off topic, but I… by RAT005
I LIKE money. I really do.
In reply to Slightly off topic, but I… by RAT005
Other social media would include the Hedge, right? Lots of third part websites, including Google and FB, get beacons when you visit a Hedge page. Including the comment page, at least for Google. How hard is it for Google to figure out which posts you made?
People already noted 10 years ago there's no privacy on the internet. Anyone who thought their Twitter DMs, or their ZH/Infowars/Unz posts (all of which send beacons to Google), are private are idiots.
In reply to More proof that humans are… by BokkeDavola
That's what I was going to say. Anyone here starting to feel uncomfortable about remarks they've made in the past about, say, (((certain groups of people))), which could be used against them at any point for the rest of their lives?
In reply to … by NiggaPleeze
NO.
In reply to That's what I was going to… by striped-pad
I have made plenty of comments for and against. Generally i go into "defend Israel" mode against plain lies and baseless anti-jewish defamation, but support the pogrom whenever the accusations are backed by some evidence.
In reply to That's what I was going to… by striped-pad
We know but that is the cost of sharing ideas.
In reply to That's what I was going to… by striped-pad
That how you know who the trolls are. They don't use the "key words and phrases".
In reply to That's what I was going to… by striped-pad
Kneegrow please.
In reply to That's what I was going to… by striped-pad
I've long said if you are not willing to die for what you say or what you post on the web, is there any point in saying it?
In reply to … by NiggaPleeze
Drama much?
In reply to I've long said if you are… by U4 eee aaa
Fuck Google. And by the way fuck Murika, the NSA, the CIA (and Monsanto)!
I hope they read this. They are a fucking cancer on the planet!
I reached a time in my life where i'm boycotting murikan shit. Fucking Satanists!
In reply to … by NiggaPleeze
Nothing online is private.
I personally love that the NSA is archiving my comments here for later use.
What would I do without Deep State slaughtering people, enslaving them, stealing their natural resources?
In reply to … by NiggaPleeze
Twitter is running on fumes. Distributed Autonomous Organizations will render obsolete a messaging app company that abuses the security and speech rights of its customers. That goes for all niche social media companies.
In reply to More proof that humans are… by BokkeDavola
The Donald will keep TWTR alive, don'tcha' worry.
In reply to Twitter is running on fumes… by auricle
Yaaaayy! Great news.
In reply to Twitter is running on fumes… by auricle
I do not have any even remotely viable blackmail material and I refuse to have
FukBook, Twitterhole, or a freekin scan your life Iphonehole etc.
But(t) hey, eveyone else is.
Yep, Bend Over 'Muricans.
In reply to aaaaaaaand I will never have… by NugginFuts
If you think Twitter is bad you ought to see what goes on at ZeroHedge IT.
Tyler is keeping a dossier on each and every one of us and matching Facehook likes, stock picks and dic pics to those greasy thumb prints we all leave on our web cam lenses. …. One day he plans on tracking down the most insolent and gripey of us and giving us all a big fat ‘thank you’ bonus check for sending his traffic through the roof.
The rest of the data he figures on selling to Russian hackers and to the marketers of Viagra.
Live Hard, There Are Rewards For Just Showing Up To The ZH Orgy Too So That Everyone Here Feels Like A Extra Special Wiener, Die Free
~ DC v8.4
In reply to aaaaaaaand I will never have… by NugginFuts
Umm, that's fine. Maybe some good will come out of it. Say TPTB determine the population is very angry. So they throw us a bone with a tax cut.
In reply to If you think Twitter is bad… by DuneCreature
When do i get my prize?
In reply to If you think Twitter is bad… by DuneCreature
Well then let me just say I don't really wear a Tick suit. The painter's tape just looks that way.
In reply to If you think Twitter is bad… by DuneCreature
ust think of all the infrastructure that's in place to support millions of users' dick pics! now that's a solid business model right there
In reply to Hey Twitter..... John McAfee… by YUNOSELL
... McAfee could start a new online service ... an anti-blackmailer service ... if your emails and pix may not be erased, the blackmailer may be 'erased' instead ... say an offshore org with erasers (soldiers of fortune) to track down and 'solve' the problem ... hmmmm ... naaaa, won't work because then who will then erase the 'eraser' when they blackmail ... nevermind ...
In reply to Hey Twitter..... John McAfee… by YUNOSELL
HA
In reply to Hey Twitter..... John McAfee… by YUNOSELL
Pagination