Twitter, YouTube Suppress Exposé on Pinterest’s Bias and Censorship, Cite Privacy

Decorative pillows set the scene at a Pinterest media event at the company's corporate headquarters office in San Francisco on April 24, 2014. Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

After Project Veritas released a report exposing what appears to be political bias against and censorship of conservative content on the social media platform Pinterest, Twitter temporarily suspended Veritas’s account and YouTube took down Veritas’s video of the exposé.

Both Twitter and Google, which owns YouTube, cited privacy violations by Veritas, possibly related to Veritas publishing the names and pictures of several Pinterest employees. Veritas countered by saying the employees were directly implicated in the bias and censorship allegations and their names were thus newsworthy.