Project Veritas
Project Veritas is founded by James O'Keefe unveiling platform , dedicated to the research methods of investigative journalism served and on a conservative agenda. The activists from Project Veritas infiltrate the immediate vicinity of the reporting target and document their work with a hidden camera. The main topics are processes from politics, media and public life. The aim is to investigate and uncover corruption, dishonesty, waste, fraud and misconduct in public and private organizations - always with a focus on politically liberal and / or conservative organizations. The Internal Revenue Service has officially recognized Project Veritas as a non-profit organization .
Prior to the 2016 presidential election , the Donald J. Trump Foundation donated $ 20,000 to the project.
In June 2017, the release of three undercover videos on CNN caused a sensation. In the first video filmed with a hidden camera, John Bonifield, CNN's health-related producer, criticizes CNN's Trump Russia coverage. Bonifield justified CNN's actions with the resulting increase in ratings. The Washington Post questioned whether a health producer's views on this matter had any significant relevance and whether they also had sufficient knowledge of the station's political coverage. In the second video, filmed with a hidden camera, CNN political commentator Van Jones confessed , "The Russia thing is just a big nothing burger." In the third video, Jimmy Carr, producer of the CNN morning show New Day , described Donald Trump as " Clown ”and“ fucking crazy ”and the American voters as“ stupid as shit ”.
The Washington Post over the alleged Project Veritas -Aktivistin Jaime Philips, in November 2017 as a teenager by Republican Senator Roy Moore to have an abortion to have been pregnant and the child. Moore was then accused by two women of sexually assaulting them. Philips had been used as a decoy to spread false information in order to then portray the media concerned as lying press . The Washington Post revealed that it had eavesdropped on dozens of journalists about politics and secretly recorded conversations. Project Veritas published the corresponding videos, “probably as an act of revenge on the Post's revelations,” as the Süddeutsche wrote.
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Individual evidence
- ^ "Project Veritas" disclosure platform - America's new agitators? In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed on February 4, 2018]).
- ↑ Interview with James O'Keefe, founder of "Project Veritas" ndr.de, January 31, 2018
- ↑ Twitter Tried to Curb Abuse. Now It Has to Handle the Backlash . In: WIRED . ( wired.com [accessed February 5, 2018]).
- ↑ [1] New York Times, accessed November 18, 2018
- ↑ Conservative Group Wins Nonprofit Status From IRS New York Times, accessed November 18, 2018
- ↑ tagesschau.de: US media activists: In the fight for their own truth. Retrieved February 5, 2018 .
- ↑ American Pravda: CNN Producer Says Russia Narrative “bullsh * t” YouTube, accessed November 22, 2018
- ↑ washingtonpost , accessed November 18, 2018.
- ↑ Hidden Camera Catches CNN Producer Saying Trump 'Probably Right' About Russia 'Witch Hunt' dailycaller.com, accessed November 18, 2018
- ↑ CNN producer calls Trump 'crazy,' voters 'stupid as sh—' in latest Project Veritas video Washingtontimes.com, accessed July 4, 2017
- ↑ Van Jones: Russia is “Nothing burger” - American Pravda: CNN Part II Project Veritas, accessed July 4, 2017
- ↑ Who is Jaime T. Phillips? Woman falsely claimed Roy Moore impregnated her . In: AL.com . ( al.com [accessed February 4, 2018]).
- ↑ Viola Schenz: The decoy . In: sueddeutsche.de . November 30, 2017, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed February 4, 2018]).