James O'Keefe, the head of investigative reporting group Project Veritas, was temporarily locked out of his Twitter account after a tweet from January 2020 had a copyright claim levied against it. Twitter did not identify the tweet in question but ReclaimTheNet believes they found an archive with the now deleted tweet, which was a trailer for a Project Veritas undercover investigation exposing Bernie Sanders' staffers calling for violence and gulags. They also found tweets removed for copyright violations that were posted right before the investigation was released. Twitter told O'Keefe he could request a retraction by the original reporter to have his content reinstated, but since the claim was private there was no way to tell who it had come from. This incident is one of several others in which old tweets from O'Keefe, Project Veritas or other high-profile users were flagged while trying to promote investigations by Project Veritas, according to ReclaimTheNet. Twitter also banned Project Veritas last year from using ads on its platform while the group was actively using them to hire new undercover journalists. The ban occurred after Project Veritas released a report of a former Twitter engineer talking about shadowbanning on the platform, according to ReclaimTheNet.