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 ...