Twitter acknowledged that it had “incorrectly” applied a warning on a post that showed photos of unaccompanied children huddled under emergency blankets in crowded “cells” at a Texas detention center. “This warning was incorrectly applied by one of our automated tools and it has since been removed,” a Twitter spokesperson told The Epoch Times in an email statement. The post that is the subject of this dispute was authored by Project Veritas, an undercover journalism nonprofit. Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe had posted a video that contained a compilation of photos that shed some light on the burgeoning crisis at the U.S. southern border. The photos, which O’Keefe said were obtained from a Donna immigration detention center in Texas, show children sleeping on what appears to be four-inch-thick mattresses, although some children appear to be sleeping on the floor. Following its release, Twitter had placed the video behind a filter and claimed that …
Twitter Says It ‘Incorrectly Applied’ Warning to Photos of Crowded Migrant Facilities
March 24, 2021
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