The deception of the far right. Thread. 1/
https://twitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1451316936210477056
2/ In January 2017, “Project Veritas operative Allison Maass was [caught on film] attempting to bribe members of Americans Take Action into inciting a riot at Trump's inauguration.” PV was founded by James O’Keefe. Michael Tyrmand sits on the board. huffpost.com/entry/counter-…
3/ Project Veritas “tried to embarrass The Washington Post with a fake Roy Moore story — and it backfired spectacularly” - 11/27/17
businessinsider.com/james-okeefe-e…
businessinsider.com/james-okeefe-e…
4/ When Posobiec spread the Pizzagate lie (about Democrats running a pedophile ring from a pizza parlor), he falsely claimed on his Twitter bio to have worked for CBS News. CBS confirmed that he never worked there. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
5/ “[V]iral photos of a sign urging violence against Melania Trump at an anti-Trump protest were planned by one of the organizers of the DeploraBall, [right wing disinformation king] Jack Posobiec.” 1/11/17 buzzfeednews.com/article/joseph…
6/ “In a 10:30 p.m. text message that same night, Posobiec claimed that he'd started an ‘assassinate Trump’ chant to goad protesters into copying him, with the intention of filming them…” buzzfeednews.com/article/joseph…
8/ Some of Posobiec’s “most repugnant hits include … falsely tweeting that Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch had called for ‘blood in the streets,’ … “ motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
9/ “[A]fter Republican congressman Steve Scalise was shot at baseball practice,” Posobiec falsely claimed “that Bernie Sanders had told his followers to ‘take down’ Trump.” motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
10/ “Facebook removes hundreds of fake profiles tied to [Charlie Kirk’s] pro-Trump group [TPUSA]
Social network says accounts tied to Turning Point USA sought to influence conversations by flooding news articles with comments” 10/8/20 theguardian.com/technology/202…
Social network says accounts tied to Turning Point USA sought to influence conversations by flooding news articles with comments” 10/8/20 theguardian.com/technology/202…
12/ “Twitter bans James O’Keefe of Project Veritas over fake account policy” 4/15/21 techcrunch.com/2021/04/15/twi…
13/ “Survivor’ Contestant Worked [for Project Veritas] as Undercover ‘Honey Pot’ Targeting Dems” by @willsommer
What a bunch of jerks. thedailybeast.com/survivor-conte…
What a bunch of jerks. thedailybeast.com/survivor-conte…
15/ Tommy Robinson video was edited to make it look like an immigrant was the aggressor in an altercation w/ Robinson. The producer was shocked by the deceptive editing & gave the uncut version to the media. It shows Tommy Robinson [a far right UK activist] was the aggressor
https://twitter.com/Munir566/status/1372596288160727044
16/ A video showed a Syrian boy being attacked at school. Far right UK activist Tommy Robinson posted two Facebook videos of his iwn claiming the boy was “not innocent & he violently attacks young girls in his school.” The boy sued Robinson for libel & won.bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
17/ “Attorney says Roy Moore supporters offered him $10,000 to drop client who accused the Senate candidate of sexual impropriety.” In exchange, they said they wld introduce him to Steve Bannon & others. 3/23/18 washingtonpost.com/investigations…
18/ “How disinformation fueled the ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign”
19/ “More than half the 3k accounts retweeting Trump did so in near-perfect synchronicity, so that the 945th tweet was the same number of seconds apart as the 946th…” by @lizzadwoskin, 10/30/20 washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
20/ Remember how Candace’s brother “performed” at an Illinois school board meeting? Was he paid for the gig? 
21/ “Conservative group [Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA] used a bunch of teens to evade Twitter and Facebook moderation
The ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ is coming from Arizona” 9/15/20 theverge.com/2020/9/15/2143…
The ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’ is coming from Arizona” 9/15/20 theverge.com/2020/9/15/2143…
22/ Project Veritas’ video was “heavily edited & published on…Breitbart, making it appear that Vera had conspired w/ O'Keefe 2 smuggle underage girls across the…border, when in fact Vera had immediately contacted the police after O'Keefe left his office” prwatch.org/news/2013/03/1…
23/ “‘I am suing Twitter for defamation bc they said I... 'operated fake accounts,' O'Keefe said in a statement. ‘This is false, this is defamatory, and they will pay.’" newsweek.com/project-verita…


24/ “O'Keefe also said that Project Veritas would ‘launch a division for lawsuits" in order to "represent others in defamation suits against CNN,’ while boasting that the group has ‘won every lawsuit we've litigated.’” [But see post 25]
25/ “James O’Keefe Loses Libel Suit Over Landrieu Incident” 3/31/15 [Not sure why O’Keefe doesn’t consider this a Project Veritas loss. Maybe he sued individually instead.] motherjones.com/politics/2015/…
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