Project Veritas Video Was a ‘Coordinated Disinformation Campaign,’ Researchers Say – The New York Times

Project Veritas Video Was a ‘Coordinated Disinformation Campaign,’ Researchers Say (Published 2020)

The timing of the deceptive video, which accuses Ilhan Omar of voter fraud, indicates that several conservatives, including Donald Trump Jr., may have known about it in advance.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/politics/project-veritas-ilhan-omar.html

A deceptive video released on Sunday by the conservative activist James O’Keefe, which claimed through unidentified sources and with no verifiable evidence that Representative Ilhan Omar’s campaign had collected ballots illegally, was probably part of a coordinated disinformation effort, according to researchers at Stanford University and the University of Washington.