© Jaime Rodriguez Sr/US Customs and Border Protection Office of Public AffairsA temporary processing facility in Donna, Texas, seen on March 17, 2021.
Twitter has admitted it made a mistake in censoring photos of migrants sleeping on the floor at a government detention center in Texas, according to a report.
James O'Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas,
posted a video on Twitter Monday showing pictures of the crowded facility, but the photos were hidden behind a filter claiming the content was "potentially sensitive."
"BREAKING: Project Veritas Obtains Horrifying NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN Images From Within Donna, TX Immigrant Detention Center; THOUSANDS of Illegal Immigrants PACKED Into Tight Spaces And Wrapped In Space Blankets On Floor; Insider: '50+ COVID Positive,'" the post said.
But a spokeswoman for Twitter
told Breitbart News that the warning was "incorrectly applied by one of our automated tools and it has since been removed."
© Getty;APJames O’Keefe, president of Project Veritas
The photos gave credence to claims that the surge of unaccompanied migrant children at the border has overwhelmed the Biden administration's ability to handle the situation.
Members of the Biden White House refuse to consider it a "crisis," describing it instead as a "challenge."
Comment: The border crisis debacle has not been the only occasion of well-deserved public humiliation for
Dorsey and Twitter.
Twitter doesn't have a "censoring department" that blocked The Post from tweeting last fall, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday — but he wouldn't reveal who was responsible for the blunder.
At a congressional hearing on misinformation and social media, Dorsey said Twitter made a "total mistake" by barring users from sharing The Post's bombshell October report about Hunter Biden's emails.
Twitter also locked The Post out of its account for more than two weeks over baseless charges that the exposé used hacked information — a decision Dorsey chalked up to a "process error."
"It was literally just a process error. This was not against them in any particular way," Dorsey told the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
"If we remove a violation we require people to correct it," he added. "We changed that based on their to wanting to delete that tweet, which I completely agree with. I see it. But it is something we learn."
But Dorsey dodged a question from Rep. Steve Scalise about who decided to freeze the 200-year-old newspaper's account.
Twitter demanded The Post delete six tweets that linked to stories based on files from the abandoned laptop of President Biden's son. Twitter backed down after the paper refused to remove the posts — a development The Post celebrated on its Oct. 31 front page with the headline "FREE BIRD!"
"Their entire account to be blocked for two weeks by a mistake seems like a really big mistake," Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, told Dorsey. "Was anyone held accountable in your censoring department for that mistake?"
"Well, we don't have a censoring department," the bearded and newly bald-headed tech exec replied.
When Scalise interjected to ask who made the decision "to block their account for two weeks," Dorsey claimed, "We didn't block their account for two weeks."
"We required them to delete the tweet and then they could tweet it again," he said. "They didn't take that action, so we corrected it for them."
Scalise compared Twitter's response to The Post's stories with a Jan. 9 Washington Post article that claimed then-President Donald Trump urged Georgia's lead elections investigator to "find the fraud" in the state's presidential vote and that she'd be a "national hero" if she did.
© New York Post/vmodicaNew York Post cover for Thursday, October 15, 2020.
"There are tweets today ... that still mischaracterize it even in a way where the Washington Post admitted it's wrong, yet those mischaracterizations can still be retweeted," Scalise told Dorsey. "Will you address that and start taking those down to reflect what even the Washington Post themselves has admitted is false information?"
Dorsey would not answer affirmatively either way: "Our misleading information policies are focused on manipulated media, public health and civic integrity," he said. "That's it."
Comment: The border crisis debacle has not been the only occasion of well-deserved public humiliation for Dorsey and Twitter.