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10 Nov, 8 tweets, 6 min read
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Project Veritas is an American far-right activist group founded by James O'Keefe in 2010.

"It produces deceptively edited videos of its undercover operations, which use secret recordings in an effort to discredit mainstream media organizations & progressive groups." ImageImage
Project Veritas released a deceptive video created to malign Pfizer employees & the Pfizer #COVID19 vaccine.

Shortly after Project Veritas released the video, inauthentic Twitter accounts helped amplify the video on Twitter.

firstdraftnews.org/articles/proje…
In October, @BotSentinel investigated, analysed & identified 798 inauthentic Twitter accounts tied to Project Veritas (below).

"The accounts in question were part of a broader coordinated #disinformation campaign":

botsentinel.com/reports/docume…
In June 2017 a civil case against Project Veritas was launched, with counts including unlawful wiretapping, fraudulent misrepresentation & civil conspiracy. In October 21 a Judge ruled that opponents may call Project Veritas a ‘political spying operation’. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Last week, FBI agents investigating the theft of a diary belonging to Joe Biden’s daughter raided the apartment of Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe after agents executed search warrants at two other locations linked to people who had worked with them.
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Fox News LOVE Project Veritas, with founder James O'Keefe appearing on "Hannity" for his first interview since the FBI raid.

Worryingly, the UK Daily Mail gave the interview & O'Keefe a sympathetic framing as some kind of "attack" on the First Amendment & journalism more widely. ImageImage
A brilliant Professor once told me that if we want to know what will happen in #Britain in the near future, look to what's happening in the #USA NOW. The explosion of #misinformation, #disinformation & pure #propaganda is concerning, dangerous & frightening. You have been warned.
And as if by magic, up pops Britain's own Sean Hannity wannabe, Calvin Robinson, on Britain's very own Fox News, GB "News", to give American Eric Spracklen of Project Veritas a 'Greatest Britain' award for promoting a bullshit video about COVID.🤪

#WeMayBeFucked
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Apologies, but I'd never heard of self-described "religious right-winger" Tzipi Hotovely until yesterday.

I understand she delivered her speech without any problems, then was confronted by protestors OUTSIDE the LSE. 🤔

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Of course they have.

They are unfit to govern.

We need to #ChangeTheSystem

#ToryCorruption

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
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