James O'Keefe, the right-wing provocateur recently fired from his own organization, is now under investigation by authorities in New York. It wouldn't be his first tangle with the law–his famously deceptive methods already earned him one fraud conviction–and his alleged misuse of Project Veritas's funds have put him back under the axe. — Read the rest
James O'Keefe was always a theater kid, and after years of making things up, it's finally brought him down. He's being fired from his own Project Veritas group after "squandering" its money on bizarre projects such as a musical production—and mundanely lavish nonsense such personal luxuries and trips. — Read the rest
On Motherboard, Brian Merchant's (previously) new science fiction story The Convoy poses an eerily plausible future for political deepfake hoaxing — with James O'Keefe-alikes running the show — that skillfully weaves in elements of the Innocence of Muslims hoax with the current state-of-the-art in high-tech fakery. — Read the rest
James O'Keefe, a right-wing troll with a criminal record, tried to trick the Washington Post by directing a female associate to falsely tell a reporter from the newspaper that Alabama Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore raped her when she was 15 then forced her to get an abortion. — Read the rest
James O'Keefe is the Breitbart-affiliated fraudster and fake news pioneer who staged the hoax videos about Acorn and Planned Parenthood that disrupted the last two election cycles; his MO is to dress up in disguises and then attempt to trick progressives into saying damning things on camera (he's not very good at it, having been rumbled by both CNN and Jay Rosen and Clay Shirky).
JD Vance left his Venmo account's friend list public, so some journalists at Wired took a deep dive.
Plenty of Heritage Foundation and other unsavory folks populate the list. While Vance didn't leave any smoking guns, unlike Madison Cawthorne and Matthew Gaetz, the list of people in his address book raise a lot questions. — Read the rest
The diary of Ashley Biden, daughter of president Joe Biden, was stolen and sold to right-wing activists. The thief is off to jail for a month after pleading guilty to a stolen property charge. Aimee Harris, 41, also received three months of home confinement and must forfeit the money Project Veritas paid her. — Read the rest
Hannah Giles replaced James O'Keefe as boss of Project Veritas—the conservative group famed for its manipulated recordings of liberals, media personnel and government workers—after it fired him for misusing its funds on vanity projects and abusing staff. But she is already stepping down, citing illegal goings-on. — Read the rest
Ivory Hecker, a Fox 26 reporter (and, apparently, a wannabe pop star) accused Fox of having "muzzled" her over a mystery story she was working on, and said that Project Veritas would be posting it instead. She blurted out the accusation during an unrelated segment about air conditioning. — Read the rest
James O'Keefe, conservative specialist in deceptively-edited gotcha videos that used to cause political earthquakes but are now virtually ignored, was yesterday banned from Twitter. Twitter says he was banned for abusing the platform's rules on platform manipulation (i.e. sockpuppets), but he claims it was because of his latest blink-and-you-missed it expose of some guy at CNN who hates Trump. — Read the rest
Conservatives have nothing but good things to say about James O'Keefe and Breitbart's tactics of using hostile video crews to harass people in public. They don't complain when abortion protestors bomb clinics, or when Trump encourages violence at his rallies. — Read the rest
It's a joy to watch this bumbling operative from James O'Keefe's sleazy smear organization Project Veritas realize she's been found out. Jamie T. Phillips, who tried to trick the Washington Post into running a phony story about Roy Moore, looks like she's about to throw up when it becomes clear to her that reporter Stephanie McCrummen knows she's a liar and an alt-right operative. — Read the rest
Demand Protest, a service that bills itself as providing "deliver[ing the appearance of rage] at scale while keeping your reputation intact" purportedly pays protesters $2500/month plus $50/hour for left-wing protesters to take to the streets, and claims to have run 48 campaigns, despite having only registered its domain last month (it also displays a copyright notice that spans 2015-2017).
Shirky and Rosen respond: "Lefty journalism professor tries to discredit the Tea Party by passing along sensational footage to his buddies at the Times!!!" Really, if this "sting" is the best that Andrew Breitbart and James O'Keefe can gin up, they might want to find another line of work. — Read the rest
The chief executive of National Public Radio has resigned, in the wake of a kerfuffle involving a James O'Keefe video sting. I am baffled by the whole affair, but the core crime that set all of this in motion appears to be the fact that another NPR executive had the audacity to use the word "xenophobic" in relation to the Tea Party. — Read the rest
Conservative activist James O'Keefe has attempted to trick CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau into a video where she'd be surrounded by sex toys, porn, and other "incriminating" stuff on a boat. He failed. O'Keefe is most infamous for the ACORN 2009 undercover video controversy. — Read the rest
