LESSONS LEARNED FROM PROJECT VERITAS (PV)
The following are some of the key lessons learned from Project Veritas are highlighted below in red font as red flags, and where like Trump's social media company, Project "Veritas" (Latin for "truth") employs a reference to the "truth" in the name of the organization -- which is known as behavioral priming or framing -- where preemptively, the name alone is meant to influence those who receive information from them to believe that information is true, and yet at least in the case of Trump, we know that Washington Post has clocked Trump at 30,000 lies in four years, making him an excellent candidate for the Bible's Great Deceiver, otherwise known as Satan.
According to multiple sources, "Project Veritas is an American far-right[14] activist[15] group founded by James O'Keefe in 2010.[19]
The group produces deceptively edited videos[13] of its undercover operations,[5] which use secret recordings[5] in an effort to discredit mainstream media organizations and progressive groups.[20][21]
Project Veritas also uses entrapment[12] to generate bad publicity for its targets,[2] and has propagated disinformation[23] and conspiracy theories[31] in its videos and operations.
Targets of Project Veritas include Planned Parenthood, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), NPR, CNN, and The Washington Post. In 2009, Project Veritas associates published misleading[2] videos that depicted ACORN employees providing advice on concealing illegal activity, causing ACORN to shut down after losing funding;[3] ACORN was cleared of wrongdoing by the Attorney General of California in 2010,[2] and the associates paid a total of $150,000 in settlements to an ACORN employee who sued for defamation.[2] NPR CEO Vivian Schiller resigned in 2013 after Project Veritas released a deceptively[2][3] edited video portraying another NPR executive making controversial comments about the Tea Party movement and NPR's federal funding.[32] Project Veritas unsuccessfully attempted to mislead The Washington Post into publishing false information about the Roy Moore sexual misconduct allegations in 2017;[33][20] the Post won a Pulitzer Prize after uncovering the operation.[7][34] In 2022, a jury awarded $120,000 against Project Veritas for fraudulent misrepresentation concerning nonprofit Democracy Partners.[35]
As a non-governmental organization, Project Veritas is financed by conservative fund Donors Trust[2] (which provided over $6.6 million from 2011 to 2019)[20][36][37] and other supporters including the Donald J. Trump Foundation.[38]
In 2020, The New York Times published an exposé detailing Project Veritas' use of spies recruited by Erik Prince, to infiltrate "Democratic congressional campaigns, labor organizations and other groups considered hostile to the Trump agenda". The Times piece notes O'Keefe's and Prince's close links to the Trump administration, and details contributions such as a $1 million transfer of funds from an undisclosed source to support their work.
The findings were based in part on discovery documents in a case brought by the American Federation of Teachers, Michigan, which had been infiltrated by Project Veritas.[39]
The organization's board fired O'Keefe in February 2023 for what it said was financial malfeasance with donor money.[40]
Project Veritas was founded in June 2010 by James O'Keefe,[1][41] who served as chairman until he separated from the organization in February 2023 amid controversy over his handling of finances and his management style.[42][43]
During the 2016 United States presidential election, the organization falsely claimed to have shown that Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign accepted illegal donations from foreign sources.[44]
Two Project Veritas members were sued for defamation by an employee of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) who was wrongfully depicted as a "willing participant in an underage sex-trafficking scheme".
The suit resulted in two settlements: O'Keefe issued a statement of regret and paid the ACORN employee $100,000 in 2013; the other Project Veritas member paid the employee an additional $50,000 in 2012.[50]
In 2017, Project Veritas was caught in a failed attempt to trick The Washington Post into posting a fabricated story about the sexual misconduct allegations against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.[16][17][51][52] Rather than uncritically publish a story that accused Republican candidate Moore of impregnating a teenager, The Washington Post critically examined the story that they were presented with, checked the source, assessed her credibility, and ultimately found that there was no merit to her claims, and that instead Project Veritas was trying to dupe The Washington Post.[33]
O'Keefe has been barred from fundraising for Project Veritas in Florida, Maine, Mississippi, Utah, and Wisconsin, partly because of his federal criminal record for entering a federal building under fraudulent pretenses and partly because Project Veritas has repeatedly failed to properly disclose O'Keefe's criminal convictions in applications for nonprofit status. Similar disclosure issues for the group's registration also exist in New Mexico, New York, and North Carolina.[53][54][55]
On February 11, 2021, the Twitter account for Project Veritas was "permanently suspended for repeated violations of Twitter's private information policy." At the same time, O'Keefe's personal account was temporarily locked for violating the policy pending the deletion of a tweet.[56][57] Twitter permanently suspended O'Keefe's personal account on April 15 for violating the website's policy on "platform manipulation and spam", which prohibits the use of fake accounts to "artificially amplify or disrupt conversations". O'Keefe denied that he used fake accounts on Twitter and stated that he intends to sue Twitter in response.[58][59] In November 2022, following the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, the Project Veritas Twitter account was restored along with a number of other high-profile far-right accounts.[60]
In September 2021, the headquarters of Project Veritas in Marmaroneck, New York, was destroyed by Hurricane Ida.[61][62] Later that month, the organization announced that it had been scammed out of $165,000 in what appeared to be a business email compromise attack. Attackers monitoring O'Keefe's email communications with his attorneys succeeded in interjecting an email from a similar-looking account into a conversation about an invoice payment, and the organization transferred funds to an account operated by the scammers.[63]
O'Keefe was removed from his leadership position at Project Veritas on February 20, 2023, amid allegations of financial malfeasance and poor management of staff. The board charged that O'Keefe had used funds for a variety of personal expenses, including $14,000 for a charter flight related to fixing his boat and $150,000 for "black cars." The staff concerns were communicated to the board in an 11 page memo describing O'Keefe as a "power-drunk tyrant."[42][43][64] Project Veritas subsequently sued O'Keefe and two others, alleging that they had created a competeting organization "O'Keefe Media Group" while still employees, approaching PV's donors and using company funds for this purpose. O'Keefe was also alleged to have improperly spent company funds on himself.[65][66]
In 2023 Project Veritas settled for $270,000 a suit on behalf of 6 employees alleging they were underpaid.[67] At the same time Project Veritas settled for undisclosed terms a sexual harassment suit from a former employee alleging a "highly sexualized" workplace with "rampant" drug use.[67]
Project Veritas uses deceptive techniques, including recording people without their knowledge and misrepresenting their employees' identities and purposes. It hires former U.S. and British military and intelligence agents to train its employees, who are often referred to as "agents" or "operatives" in internal documents. Internal memos show that Project Veritas clears these activities with its legal team to stay within the boundaries of the law, which The New York Times says is a sign of Project Veritas' interest in "using tactics that test the boundaries of legality and are outside of mainstream reporting techniques".[68][1] Rolling Stone called Project Veritas' reporting practices "dubious" with their reporters actively manipulating their targets into the reactions.[69]
SUMMARY OF 21 LESSONS LEARNED FROM "PROJECT VERITAS"
Lesson 1: PV was "financed by the same organization" financing Jeffrey Epstein's Donald Trump's organization
Lesson 2: PV "hired spies" from Jeff Epstein's "prince(s)" Andrew's and Harry's military to train its employees
Lesson 3: PV hired spy boss Erik Prince to "infiltrate" perceived enemies of Jeffrey Epstein's Trump family
Lesson 4: PV's "E. Prince's family owns Spectrum Health", which communicated with Trump + Russians(2016)
Lesson 5: PV's-Alfa Bank's Erik Prince had "close links to Trump" after Russia "engineered" Trump into office
Lesson 6: PV and Alfa Bank's "Erik Prince received dark money", a $1 million transfer from an unknown source
Lesson 7: PV has manufactured "fake evidence" to discredit academics, journalists, and/or progressives
Lesson 8: PV has used "entrapment" to discredit academics, journalists, and/or progressives
Lesson 9: PV has created "fake news or conspiracies" to discredit academics, journalists, and/or progressives
Lesson 10: PV activities included "defaming perceived enemies" with underage sex-trafficking claims
Lesson 11: PV, like Jeffrey Epstein's Trump family, has been accused of and/or linked to sex crimes/ harassment
Lesson 12: PV activities included "deceiving journalists" to defame enemies with false sex crimes claims
Lesson 13: PV's founder, "O'Keefe, like Trump, was accused" of facilitating "highly sexualized" employment
Lesson 14: PV was kicked off Twitter for "manipulation", and then allowed back by Jeff Epstein's Elon Musk
Lesson 15: PV's founder, "O'Keefe, like Trump, was accused" of using organizational funds for personal use
Lesson 16: PV's founder, "O'Keefe, like Trump, was accused" of facilitating or engaging in use of drugs
Lesson 17: PV's founder, "O'Keefe, like Trump, was accused" of being a tyrant and/or adhering to the same
Lesson 18: PV, Erik Prince, Donald Trump, Alfa Bank, Spectrum Health, or Jeff Epstein "shared resources"
Lesson 19: PV, Erik Prince, Donald Trump, Russians, Spectrum Health, or Epstein "projected their crimes"
Lesson 20: PV, Erik Prince, Donald Trump, Russians, Spectrum Health, or Epstein didn't "Project Truth"
Lesson 21: PV, Erik Prince, Donald Trump, Russians, Spectrum Health, or Epstein orbits can't be trusted
SOURCES AND AUTHORITIES
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Goss, Brian Michael (March 12, 2018). "Veritable Flak Mill". Journalism Studies. 19 (4): 548–563. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2017.1375388. ISSN 1461-670X. S2CID 149185981. To wit, Schiller's apparently bemused response to sharia law supposedly on the march was spliced-in from an unrelated moment of the discourse—a blatant deception through editing.
Tumber, Howard; Waisbord, Silvio (March 24, 2021). The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-34678-7. Retrieved March 19, 2021 – via Google Books. False information can make movements defend the accuracy of their own claims and materials because of doubt sowed by countermovements and governments (Tufekci 2017). For instance, Project Veritas, an alt-right group, has a track record of attacking movements through misleading editing of videos and through fabricated 'sting' operations (Benkler et al. 2018).
Kroeger, Brooke (August 31, 2012). "Watchdog". Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception. Northwestern University Press. pp. 249–254. ISBN 978-0-8101-2619-0. JSTOR j.ctt22727sf.17. Archived from the original on December 6, 2020. Retrieved November 7, 2020 – via JSTOR.
Czarnecki, Sean (January 19, 2018). "A guide to the 7 types of fake news from Storyful's new editor". PRWeek. Archived from the original on February 1, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
Choi, Joseph (April 14, 2021). "Matt Gaetz makes six-figure ad buy targeting CNN amid sex trafficking allegations". The Hill. Retrieved April 19, 2021. The ad includes footage by the far-right activist group Project Veritas that shows a man identified as a CNN employee talking about news coverage of Gaetz, Politico reported. Project Veritas is known for publishing undercover sting footage that has been deceptively edited to reflect badly on organizations and people it disagrees with.
Pilkington, Ed (November 29, 2017). "Project Veritas: how fake news prize went to rightwing group beloved by Trump". The Guardian. Archived from the original on August 11, 2019. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
Karbal, Ian W. (November 3, 2020). "How careful local reporting undermined Trump's claims of voter fraud". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on November 21, 2020. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
Sebenius, Alyza; Brody, Ben (June 26, 2019). "Trump suggests U.S. should sue Facebook and Google". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on September 12, 2020. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
Newton, Casey; Brandom, Russell (June 27, 2019). "Project Veritas' YouTube sting was deeply misleading — and successful". The Verge. Archived from the original on June 28, 2019. Retrieved June 27, 2019.
LaCapria, Kim (October 18, 2016). "Project Veritas' Election 2016 'Rigging' Videos". Snopes. Archived from the original on June 30, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
Poniewozik, James (March 13, 2011). "The Twisty, Bent Truth of the NPR-Sting Video". Time. Archived from the original on June 14, 2019. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
"Video: Dem Activist Brags About Disrupting Trump Rallies". CBS Miami. October 19, 2020. Archived from the original on November 7, 2020. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
Ellefson, Lindsey (December 2, 2020). "Project Veritas Issues Correction for Misidentifying CNN Employee in Call". TheWrap. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
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Tumber, Howard; Waisbord, Silvio (March 24, 2021). The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-34678-7. Retrieved March 19, 2021 – via Google Books. False information can make movements defend the accuracy of their own claims and materials because of doubt sowed by countermovements and governments (Tufekci 2017). For instance, Project Veritas, an alt-right group, has a track record of attacking movements through misleading editing of videos and through fabricated 'sting' operations (Benkler et al. 2018).
Coleman, Aidan J.; Janes, Katharine M. (July 26, 2021). "Caught on Tape: Establishing the Right of Third-Party Bystanders to Secretly Record the Police". Virginia Law Review. University of Virginia School of Law. 107: 168. Retrieved February 20, 2022. Project Veritas, a far-right non-profit organization whose methods have sparked controversy, brought a separate challenge to Section 99 that, on appeal, was consolidated with K. Eric Martin and Rene Perez's suit against the Suffolk County District Attorney.
Gais, Hannah; Hayden, Edison (December 11, 2022). "White Nationalists, Other Republicans Brace for 'Total War'". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved February 24, 2023. Multiple figures associated with Project Veritas, the hard-right propaganda group that engages in sting operations, attended the NYYRC gala."
"Tyrmand, who is known for his ties to the global radical right, took the stage and lauded the ultranationalist European leaders in attendance.
Karbal, Ian W. (December 14, 2020). "The best journalism of 2020: Covering Trump". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on December 17, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2021. Throughout his presidency, Trump has boosted far-right outlets with a loose relationship to truth, like Breitbart and One America News, into household names. Another such outlet, Project Veritas, apparently directed an employee to plant a false story in the Washington Post about a sexual encounter with Senate candidate Roy Moore. [...] However, careful reporting by Post journalists exposed the sting and revealed the deceitful tactics of far-right actors who brand themselves as journalists.
Covucci, David (January 14, 2020). "James O'Keefe claims Bernie Sanders will throw Trump fans in gulags". The Daily Dot. Retrieved January 30, 2021. O'Keefe is the head of Project Veritas, a far-right outlet that uses misleading edits and various forms of entrapment to try and catch Democrats, liberals, and media members in "shocking" statements.
Wilson, Jason (July 27, 2018). "What is 'shadow banning', and why did Trump tweet about it?". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 9, 2020. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
Seidman, Andrew; Terruso, Julia (January 5, 2021). "Congress is about to formalize Biden's win. Busloads of Pa. Trump supporters are heading to D.C. to protest". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on January 28, 2021. Retrieved January 28, 2021. ...refers to posts on far-right websites like Project Veritas.
Reimann, Nicholas (November 10, 2020). "Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Offering Up To $1 Million For Evidence Of Voter Fraud". Forbes. Archived from the original on February 1, 2021. Retrieved January 28, 2021. The far-right conspiracy theory-driven group Project Veritas is offering rewards of $25,000 for tips relating to election fraud in Pennsylvania.
Olalde, Mark (December 4, 2020). "Climate Point: Climate change disrupts life from the Hopi Reservation to Louisiana". USA Today. Archived from the original on December 8, 2020. Retrieved December 8, 2020. the Mercer family, who are ardent supporters of President Donald Trump, have given vast sums of money to conservative causes and partly funded the far-right Project Veritas, which tries to secretly record and smear journalists, nonprofits and other targets.
Miao, Hannah (December 4, 2020). "New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy slams New York Young Republican Club for hosting large, maskless gala in Jersey City amid Covid surge". CNBC. Archived from the original on December 8, 2020. Retrieved December 8, 2020. Featured attendees at the gala included keynote speaker James O'Keefe, founder of far-right group Project Veritas
"US House race to watch: Lois Frankel vs Laura Loomer". Al Jazeera. October 31, 2020. Retrieved March 22, 2021. She previously worked undercover for Project Veritas, a far-right organisation known for targeting leftists and anti-fascists.
Mathers, Matt (December 7, 2020). "AOC embroiled in fresh Twitter row with Marco Rubio over PPP loans". The Independent. Retrieved March 22, 2021. Project Veritas is a far-right activist group, which says it uses undercover techniques to reveal so-called liberal bias and corruption.
Foster, Ally (November 12, 2020). "Trump supporters plan massive protests". News.com.au. Retrieved March 22, 2021. His claims were publicised by Project Veritas, a far-right activist group
Adler-Bell, Sam (May 23, 2018). "Prosecutors Withheld Evidence That Could Exonerate J20 Inauguration Protesters, Judge Rules". The Intercept. Retrieved March 22, 2021. The video of the planning meeting was provided to investigators by Project Veritas, a controversial far-right media group known for "sting" operations against its political opponents and the publication of selectively edited videos.
Min, Janice (March 22, 2021). "Pinterest and the Subtle Poison of Sexism and Racism in Silicon Valley". Time. Retrieved March 24, 2021. Later, Ozoma's cell-phone number and internal company emails appeared on extremist platforms including 4chan and 8chan following leaks by a white male colleague, a software developer, to Project Veritas, the far-right activist group founded by James O'Keefe. She received threats of rape and death.
Choi, Joseph (April 14, 2021). "Matt Gaetz makes six-figure ad buy targeting CNN amid sex trafficking allegations". The Hill. Retrieved April 19, 2021. The ad includes footage by the far-right activist group Project Veritas that shows a man identified as a CNN employee talking about news coverage of Gaetz, Politico reported. Project Veritas is known for publishing undercover sting footage that has been deceptively edited to reflect badly on organizations and people it disagrees with.
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Scherer, Jasper (January 11, 2023). "Conroe brewery backs out of 'rally against censorship' featuring Kyle Rittenhouse". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved February 9, 2023. Cassandra Spencer, a Defiance Press publishing manager who previously worked for the conservative activist group Project Veritas, is also set to appear at the rally
"Trump applauds far-right social media provocateurs". AP NEWS. April 21, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2023. Trump singled out for praise James O'Keefe, the right-wing activist whose Project Veritas organization once tried to plant a false story in The Washington Post.
Barry, Dan (November 6, 2022). "In Affluent Greenwich, It's Republicans vs. 'Trumplicans'". The New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2023. The Greenwich Republican ecosystem is such that James O'Keefe, the founder of the conservative activist group Project Veritas, is practically a local celebrity.
DePeau-Wilson, Michael (January 31, 2023). "Video of Pfizer Employee Explaining COVID Vaccine Research Debunked". www.medpagetoday.com. Retrieved February 9, 2023. Project Veritas, a conservative activist group known for spreading misinformation, recently published a concealed-camera video allegedly showing a Pfizer employee describing the company's COVID-19 vaccine research efforts
Greene, David (November 29, 2017). "A Conservative On Project Veritas". Morning Edition. Retrieved February 9, 2023. The conservative activist James O'Keefe and his nonprofit Project Veritas have sprung sting operations on many media organizations, including NPR. In 2011, after one such scheme, NPR pushed out our CEO and also our top fundraiser. These operations often involve undercover videos edited in misleading ways.
Al-Rawi, Ahmed; Celestini, Carmen; Stewart, Nicole; Worku, Nathan (March 21, 2022). "How Google Autocomplete Algorithms about Conspiracy Theorists Mislead the Public". M/C Journal. 25 (1). doi:10.5204/mcj.2852. eISSN 1441-2616. S2CID 247603535. The same misleading label can be found via searching for James O'Keefe of Project Veritas, who is positively labelled as "American activist". Veritas is known for releasing audio and video recordings that contain false information designed to discredit academic, political, and service organisations
Jackson, Sam (2020). The Oath Keepers : patriotism and the edge of violence in a right-wing antigovernment group. New York. ISBN 9780231550314. Groups like Oath Keepers pounced on information provided by Project Veritas—a conservative activist group known for conducting manipulative video stings of progressive organizations—that allegedly documented organized attempts by Democrats to rig the election
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a b Pilkington, Ed (November 29, 2017). "Project Veritas: how fake news prize went to rightwing group beloved by Trump". The Guardian. Archived from the original on August 11, 2019. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
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a b Haag, Matthew (November 27, 2017). "Woman Tried to Dupe Washington Post With False Claim About Roy Moore, Paper Says". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on April 5, 2019. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
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a b c d Bennett, W. Lance; Livingston, Steven (October 2020). "The Coordinated Attack on Authoritative Institutions". The Disinformation Age. Cambridge University Press. pp. 261–294. doi:10.1017/9781108914628.011. ISBN 978-1-108-91462-8. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
^ Damann, Taylor (January 8, 2019). "Project Veritas and the Changing Face of Fake News". Gateway Journalism Review. Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 47 (351). ISSN 2158-7345. Archived from the original on October 8, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2021. Project Veritas seems to only consider influencing political outcomes, though. O'Keefe's open pride in affecting the employment of several individuals in leadership for various liberal media outlets, his hand in influencing political elections, or even influencing public opinion on abortion are striking. Conducting guerrilla journalism that seeks to expose only liberals and Democrats is inherently ideological.
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a b O'Harrow, Robert Jr (December 1, 2017). "Project Veritas received $1.7 million last year from charity associated with the Koch brothers". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on August 27, 2019. Retrieved August 27, 2019.
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Goss, Brian Michael (March 12, 2018). "Veritable Flak Mill". Journalism Studies. 19 (4): 548–563. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2017.1375388. ISSN 1461-670X. S2CID 149185981.
Tumber, Howard; Waisbord, Silvio (March 24, 2021). The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-34678-7. Retrieved March 19, 2021 – via Google Books. False information can make movements defend the accuracy of their own claims and materials because of doubt sowed by countermovements and governments (Tufekci 2017). For instance, Project Veritas, an alt-right group, has a track record of attacking movements through misleading editing of videos and through fabricated 'sting' operations (Benkler et al. 2018).
Benkler, Yochai; Faris, Rob; Roberts, Hal (October 2018). "What Can Men Do Against Such Reckless Hate?". Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation and Radicalization in American Politics. Oxford University Press. p. 358. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-092362-4. OCLC 1045162158. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved January 29, 2021. In November 2017, for example, the right-wing disinformation outfit Project Veritas tried to trip up The Washington Post, offering the Post a fake informant who told the Post that Roy Moore had impregnated her when she was a teenager.
Kroeger, Brooke (August 31, 2012). "Watchdog". Undercover Reporting: The Truth About Deception. Northwestern University Press. pp. 249–254. ISBN 978-0-8101-2619-0. JSTOR j.ctt22727sf.17. Archived from the original on December 6, 2020. Retrieved November 7, 2020 – via JSTOR.
Czarnecki, Sean (January 19, 2018). "A guide to the 7 types of fake news from Storyful's new editor". PRWeek. Archived from the original on February 1, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
Hellinger, Daniel C. (2019). "Globalization, Populism, Conspiracism". Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Trump. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 141–184. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98158-1_5. ISBN 978-3-319-98157-4. S2CID 158077533.
Cagé, Julia (February 11, 2021). "From Philanthropy to Democracy: Rethinking Governance and Funding of High-Quality News in the Digital Age". In Bernholz, Lucy; Landemore, Hélène; Reich, Rob (eds.). Digital Technology and Democratic Theory. University of Chicago Press. doi:10.7208/9780226748603-010 (inactive August 1, 2023). ISBN 978-0-226-74860-3. Retrieved March 27, 2021 – via Google Books. An additional example of the growing spread of fake news financed by billionaires is Project Veritas, an organization run by James O'Keefe that specializes in operations against the media (e.g., recently against The Washington Post and The New York Times). According to The Washington Post, relying on documents fielded [sic] with the International [sic] Revenue Service, Project Veritas received $1.7 million in 2017 from charity associated with the Koch brothers. Furthermore, other contributors to Project Veritas in recent years include Gravitas Maximus LLC, an organization controlled by the Mercer family.[a]
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Astor, Maggie (September 29, 2020). "Project Veritas Video Was a 'Coordinated Disinformation Campaign', Researchers Say". The New York Times. Archived from the original on September 30, 2020. Retrieved October 2, 2020. [Project Veritas is] a great example of what a coordinated disinformation campaign looks like
Arnold, Amanda (January 7, 2021). "5 People Are Dead Following Violent Siege at U.S. Capitol". The Cut. Archived from the original on January 27, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
Palmer, Scott (November 6, 2019). "ABC News anchor says Jeffrey Epstein exposé killed by Royal palace's threats". Newshub. Archived from the original on November 24, 2020. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
Wolfman-Arent, Avi (May 31, 2018). "N.J. lawmakers question teachers union on undercover videos". WHYY. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
^ Reimann, Nicholas (November 10, 2020). "Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Offering Up To $1 Million For Evidence Of Voter Fraud". Forbes. Archived from the original on February 1, 2021. Retrieved January 28, 2021. The far-right conspiracy theory-driven group Project Veritas is offering rewards of $25,000 for tips relating to election fraud in Pennsylvania.
^ Tolz, Vera (December 3, 2020). "Troll Factories". London Review of Books. Vol. 3, no. 23. ISSN 0260-9592. Archived from the original on December 30, 2020. Retrieved January 28, 2021. Right-wing conspiracy theories are spread by homegrown US outfits such as Project Veritas, started in 2010 by James O'Keefe, and Infowars, set up a decade earlier by Alex Jones.
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