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What is Project Veritas? Project Veritas is a conservative media organization dedicated to secretly infiltrating progressive organizations to produce unflattering and often selectively edited videos. Project Veritas operates under the guise of citizen journalism, but serves a conservative political agenda without adhering to basic journalistic ethics. The organization was founded by James O’Keefe, a protégé of Andrew Breitbart, in 2010. Project Veritas has frequently been criticized for editing its videos to deceive its audience and misrepresent its subjects. New York magazine described O’Keefe’s ACRON videos as having been “edited in a highly misleading way.” 1 A 2010 investigation into the ACORN videos by former California Attorney General Jerry Brown, found that O’Keefe’s videos were “severely edited,” and an accompanying press release described O’Keefe as a “partisan zealot.”2 In 2016, Andrew Seaman—chair of the Society of Professional Journalists’ ethics committee—wrote that O’Keefe is “not an ethical journalist” and has a “history of distorting facts or context.”3 Project Veritas’ deceptive editing has been a source of continuing legal trouble for the group, which is currently fighting at least two defamation lawsuits filed by individuals featured in its videos, and has paid three settlements to individuals who brought defamation claims. Previous targets: Project Veritas and James O’Keefe have targeted a number of high-profile progressive organizations in their sting operations. ACORN: In 2009, O’Keefe produced videos appearing to show ACORN employees advising O’Keefe on tax matters for purported sex trafficking and prostitution schemes. O’Keefe’s videos were heavily edited, and ACORN was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Brooklyn district attorney.4 The videos were politically damaging, and caused Congress to suspend funding to the group, which filed for bankruptcy in 2010. Planned Parenthood: Project Veritas operatives have repeatedly targeted Planned Parenthood, releasing videos claiming that Planned Parenthood staff failed to report statutory rape and suggesting that they took donations from operatives posing as racists. Teachers Unions: Project Veritas has targeted several NEA and AFT affiliates. In 2016, it released three videos taken at the United Federation of Teachers and White Plains Teachers Association offices, in which operatives described a fake scenario of a potentially inappropriate disciplinary action between a teacher and student. Project Veritas has also posted sting videos dealing with
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