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by PaywallBuster 1385 days ago
Project Veritas captures some interesting bits undercover from the left wing media https://www.projectveritas.com/
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Sorry, but the inherent weakness of Wikipedia has been fully exploited.

You can't crowdsource political information.

You don't have to trust Wikipedia. Look at the citations. Wikipedia can be used as just an index of excerpts from what it cites.
Yeah, your comment is getting erased because you provide evidence of how they play the game.

Edit: Now my comment too! Of course no input or reply.

Project Veritas is a supremely biased source, they selectively edit all of their gotcha videos, use entrapment and other techniques that are completely disqualifying in terms of trusting their conclusions, and are currently under investigation for commissioning the theft of Ashley Biden's diary.

No serious person should take them seriously.

It wpuld be great to have a ProPublica from the right.

To be fair, the Ashley Biden diary was a pretext to slam them with the FBI. Veritas didn't publish anything from the diary. Other organizations did publish and they are not being pursued by the DOJ. You are saying that you don't like how they do things and that disqualifies any information that they deliver. However, is it fair to say you equally disqualify sources you agree with for their methods?

Are you saying that despite the evidence they provide, (which really, despite all the editing in the world cannot be misconstrued) you do not believe that the things they claim are occurring?

It's not playing nice because the media organizations are not being honest.

It's unsightly to have the ways one side cheats exposed, but do you really choose to believe they just don't cheat?