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New York Times
February 4, 2018
The conservative political activist James O'Keefe has created a cottage industry manipulating political perceptions by editing footage in misleading ways. In 2018, low-tech editing like Mr. O'Keefe's is already an anachronism: Imagine what even less scrupulous activists could do with the power to createÃÂ ...
NewBostonPost (blog)
February 1, 2018
James O'Keefe talked about undercover filming of Democratic activists apparently showing out-of-state people how to vote in New Hampshire in 2016. ... to speaking engagements about voter fraud and his book American Pravda at the University of New Hampshire at Durham and the conservative 603 Alliance in Bedford,ÃÂ ...
Seacoastonline.com
January 31, 2018
O'Keefe, the founder of the controversial nonprofit conservative group Project Veritas, made his comments as he addressed a gathering of University of New ... A few weeks ago, a federal judge dismissed a bid by O'Keefe to throw out a lawsuit filed by Democratic organizations and activists his group hadÃÂ ...
MyStatesman.com
January 28, 2018
On the streets of Boston a decade ago, Benjamin Wetmore and James O'Keefe gathered signatures on a petition seeking to find people who would be willing to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees into their homes. It was one of many political stunts the conservative activists performed on hidden camera.
RT
January 21, 2018
Writing on Twitter, Cernovich claimed to have shaken hands with Manning, adding that despite protestations from people on the left, “it was not a big deal.” Speaking to Buzzfeed, pro-Trump activist Jack Posobiec said he considered Manning's appearance a mark of respect for the conservative movement.
Newsweek
January 17, 2018
There is a disconcerting scene about midway through American Pravda: My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News, the new book by conservative activist-slash-gonzo-journalist-slash-inveterate-troll James O'Keefe, a scene that made me ponder at length what he does, and what we do, we being the proudÃÂ ...
Slate Magazine
January 17, 2018
Project Veritas' campaign against Twitter is part of what looks to be a wave of conservative activists striking out against Twitter and other major internet ... suit against Twitter, which banned him in 2015 for using the platform to solicit donations to “take out” Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson. ThenÃÂ ...
WIRED
January 16, 2018
Conservative activist James O'Keefe has returned. In a series of illicitly filmed videos with current and former Twitter employees, the right-wing provocateur claims to have exposed partisan bias at the social network. The offensive may have been inevitable. While O'Keefe's Project Veritas has mostly focusedÃÂ ...
Ars Technica
January 13, 2018
James O'Keefe is a conservative activist who has made a name for himself with hidden camera investigations of supposedly liberal organizations. This week, he turned his attention to Twitter, publishing a series of secretly recorded videos of Twitter employees (and former employees) discussing Twitter'sÃÂ ...
Riverfront Times (blog)
January 12, 2018
James O'Keefe, the filmmaker behind a hilariously busted scheme to embarrass the Washington Post back in November, is heading to St. Louis next week to bask ... The conservative provocateur seemed to want to show the paper would fall for any old story — and that it was desperate to take down Moore.
CNNMoney
January 12, 2018
Donald Trump in 2013 asked James O'Keefe, the controversial conservative filmmaker, if he could "get inside" Columbia University and obtain President Obama's sealed college records, according to a passage in O'Keefe's forthcoming book, a copy of which was reviewed by CNN. O'Keefe, a guerrillaÃÂ ...
Hollywood Reporter
January 11, 2018
The Stone and Yiannopoulos promise of a lawsuit that's planned to be filed in February comes the same day ambush-journalist James O'Keefe released undercover video of Twitter employees claiming the platform “shadowbans” conservative tweets so that, unbeknownst to the author of the tweets, theyÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
January 11, 2018
Conservative activist James O'Keefe released a new video revealing Twitter's use of “shadow banning” and algorithms used to censor certain ideas demonstrating the social media giant's propensity towards censorship. by ZeroHedge.com. January 11th, 2018. By ZeroHedge.comÃÂ ...
The Intercept
January 3, 2018
Maass posed as a progressive activist, using a cover story and falsified documents to obtain an internship with Democracy Partners. The website, displaying the profiles as a photo array, scrolls back to associates from O'Keefe's days as a student at Rutgers University, where he started a conservativeÃÂ ...
KERA News
November 28, 2017
Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe spoke Wednesday on the Southern Methodist University campus, sponsored by the conservative SMU Young Americans for Freedom, a national nonprofit co-founded in the 1960s by William F. Buckley. Answering audience questions after the speech, O'Keefe wasÃÂ ...
Media Matters for America (blog)
December 31, 1999
Following declining traffic rates on their websites, an assortment of conspiracy theorists, hoax peddlers, anti-Muslim bigots, partisan activists, and ... tech giants like Google, Twitter, and Facebook are “shadow-banning” and censoring them for being conservative and supporting President Donald Trump.
Vanity Fair
December 31, 1999
(Some screenshots were also included in the lawsuit Damore filed this month, which alleges that Google discriminates against conservatives, white ... feeble attempt to sue Twitter (Johnson was kicked off the platform in 2015 after he tweeted that he wanted to “take out” civil-rights activist DeRay McKesson),ÃÂ ...
WMUR Manchester
December 31, 1999
O'KEEFE BACK IN NH. Conservative activist and controversial undercover video producer James O'Keefe stirred the political pot in New Hampshire twice in recent years with videos he released through his Project Veritas group. In 2012, O'Keefe released a video after the first-in-the-nation primary showingÃÂ ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
December 13, 2017
The institute is a nonprofit organization whose website says it has "trained more than 191,000 conservative activists, leaders, and students" since its founding in 1979. The organization supports conservative groups and newspapers on campus, and it oversees Campus Reform, the news website whoseÃÂ ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
December 9, 2017
MADISON - State Attorney General Brad Schimel said he is close to wrapping up an on-again-off-again voter fraud investigation based on secret videos shot by conservative activists. In an interview this week, the Republican attorney general called the conclusion of the investigation — based onÃÂ ...
Tampabay.com
December 9, 2017
Conservative media activist James O'Keefe speaks at an event hosted by the Southern Methodist University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, ... While Project Veritas's deceptive techniques and splashy videos have attracted attention and acclaim from far-right activists, as well as criticism fromÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
December 8, 2017
According to new reports, President Trump helped support James O'Keefe and his controversial conservative activist group Project Veritas, which has made a reputation for scandalous-but-inaccurate reporting critical of the Left. (AP Images)ÃÂ ...
New York Magazine
December 6, 2017
The award, given to him by the conservative group United for Purpose, was presented by Ginni Thomas, the group's president and the wife of Supreme ... O'Keefe, who just made a fool of himself in an attempt to stick up for a sexual predator, apparently meets that criteria in the eyes of right-wing activists.
Washington Examiner
December 1, 2017
Conservative activist James O'Keefe, whose organization Project Veritas seeks to expose left-leaning bias in the media, spoke uninterrupted Thursday night in Middlebury, Vermont — two miles from Middlebury College. Middlebury College drew national attention in March, when leftist protesters put one ofÃÂ ...
The Hill
November 30, 2017
A billionaire conservative Trump donor also gave money to an activist organization that is now under new scrutiny for what critics say are underhanded techniques. Tax filings reported by BuzzFeed on Thursday reveal that Robert Mercer donated $25,000 in 2012 to Project Veritas, the group accused ofÃÂ ...
Seven Days
November 30, 2017
The controversial conservative activist James O'Keefe spoke on the topic of free speech without interruption in Middlebury Thursday night. About 40 people gathered in a small event room at the Courtyard Marriott to hear O'Keefe, whose Project Veritas has been in the national news this week for a botchedÃÂ ...
WPTZ
November 29, 2017
Controversial conservative activist plans Middlebury event ... WPTZ. Updated: 10:13 AM EST Nov 30, 2017. Brad Evans ÷ Digital Media Manager. MIDDLEBURY, Vt. —. A controversial conservative activist is planning an event in Middlebury. James O'Keefe is the founder of Project Veritas. Advertisementà...
RadioWest
November 29, 2017
A botched sting of the Washington Post by conservative anti-media activist James O'Keefe has renewed scrutiny of his organization, Project Veritas, and its fundraising capabilities. Project Veritas is known for its highly edited undercover videos targeting liberals and large media organizations. Their mostÃÂ ...
The Hill
November 28, 2017
Conservative writer Brent Bozell slammed conservative activist James O'Keefe on Tuesday after his botched undercover sting on The Washington Post, saying O'Keefe should be “condemned” for trying to plant a fake story about GOP Senate hopeful Roy Moore with the paper. Bozell's remarks come a dayÃÂ ...
CBS DFW
November 28, 2017
In his statement Lagesse went on to say, “Young Americans for Freedom and Young America's Foundation have never encouraged student activists to pursue undercover investigations. However, as Mr. O'Keefe's past work has demonstrated, undercover journalism can help improve the integrity of powerfulÃÂ ...
NPR
November 28, 2017
The Washington Post says a woman who approached reporters with a story that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore got her pregnant as a teen actually "appears to be part of undercover sting operation" run by conservative activist James O'Keefe — suspicions the newspaper says were confirmed whenÃÂ ...
The Hill
November 2, 2017
Business Insider reports that Laura Loomer, a conservative activist who formerly worked for conservative activist James O'Keefe's Project ...
Current
October 25, 2017
And he offers a recap of right-wing activist James O'Keefe's sting of NPR executives, withholding any commentary. Though NPR may come off ...
The Intercept
October 24, 2017
A progressive activist on Tuesday interrupted President Donald Trump's ... Clayton tricked right-wing activists into waving Russian flags while Trump spoke. He was also involved in a high-profile incident with conservative ...
Mother Jones
October 23, 2017
... scandals, Sinclair senses an opportunity to build a rival conservative network. ... that shovels red meat, 24 hours a day, to dedicated conservative viewers. ..... for undercover sting videos that toppled the progressive activist group ACORN.
Washington Examiner
October 17, 2017
The right-leaning Project Veritas website, under the leadership of conservative activist James O'Keefe, released another undercover video on ...
Washington Examiner
October 10, 2017
... Times' online video team was caught disparaging President Trump and his family in a video sting by conservative activist James O'Keefe.
Columbia Journalism Review
October 6, 2017
Conservative critics of the press want more than just a louder voice. .... He pointed to James O'Keefe, a conservative activist who is famous for producing secretly ...
The New Yorker
August 8, 2017
James O'Keefe III, the conservative activist famous for undercover ... and has since expropriated from left-wing activists as his own guide to ...
Wisconsin Public Radio News
December 31, 1999
His remarks will follow those of James O'Keefe, a conservative activist known for posting edited videos targeting executives of the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now and National Public Radio. Walker's participation in the event comes a little more than a month after the University ofÃÂ ...
TPM
December 31, 1999
Activist Jaime Phillips tried to get close to journalists at the Post and other outlets, but was ultimately exposed by the Washington Post for posing as a sexual ... If anybody thinks we aren't on the steep slope to fascism, think about what would happen to a liberal (or simply non-conservative) organization orÃÂ ...
Middlebury Campus
December 31, 1999
The controversial conservative activist James O'Keefe spoke on Thursday evening at the Courtyard Marriott hotel in Middlebury to a modest audience of college students and local residents. Roughly 50 people, including about a dozen Middlebury students, were in attendance in the small event room inÃÂ ...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
James O'Keefe, the conservative activist who attempted to plant a false story in The Washington Post this month about GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, was presented Wednesday with an Impact Award, handed to him by Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. O'Keefe acceptedÃÂ ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
September 23, 2017
On "The Opposition" Klepper will preside over a team of zealous correspondents who, like camcorder-packing conservative activist JamesÃÂ ...
The Intercept
September 11, 2017
“Ben on a larger pedestal for the conservative movement is nothing but ... Over the course of the year, some left-wing activists, known largely asÃÂ ...
OB Rag
August 26, 2017
Conservative activists Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe released some ... The good news is that some twenty local activist groups haveÃÂ ...
MyPalmBeachPost
August 18, 2017
On a night when conservative activist and guerilla videographer James O'Keefe was the keynote speaker and decried the “rotten” media, manyÃÂ ...
Sun Sentinel
August 18, 2017
United Conservatives for Florida has raised $36,100, all of it from another ... The keynote speaker will be notorious mockumentary filmmakerÃÂ ...
LGBTQ Nation
August 16, 2017
According to a screenshot posted by conservative journalist and activist Laura Loomer, of Rebel TV and formerly of James O'Keefe's deceptiveÃÂ ...
Truth-Out
August 15, 2017
"In reality, Vandersteel is a conservative commentator on YourVoice ... to a report that suggests conservative activist James O'Keefe III could beÃÂ ...
