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Complaining about the quality of mainstream media while quoting project vertias as your source shows your bias in the extreme - they are not someone you'd present as a trusted source, and in fact present extreme versions of the biases you are purporting others hold.

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> Complaining about the quality of mainstream media while quoting project vertias as your source shows your bias in the extreme.

My cited source is a legal decision, written by a judge.

Polarization knows many victims. Important drivers are outrage, othering and dismissal.

I've followed Project Veritas and yes they go undercover for right-wing causes, but I haven't seen evidence of them being deliberately untruthful in their reporting.

The real case here is that imho we should all start to (1) withdraw from outrage, (2) expand our bubble to cover all sides.

I've done the latter, it helped with the former, although I'm not there yet.

Wasn't the sting OP to protect an alleged pedophile (or almost) organized by project Veritas? I saw this on a rightwing media in France, so unless there is no honor among thieves, this must be close to the truth, no?

Just to use their most recent scandal, what about their claim that Richard Hopkins, a postal worker in Pennsylvania, was told to backdate a ballot postmark? After which the post office inspector general investigated and reported that Hopkins had denied that claim?

I'm guessing you'll claim that Project Veritas was truthfully reporting what Hopkins told them, and it's not their fault that he changed his story once he talked to law enforcement. Even though he also told the investigators that his initial affadavit was written by Project Veritas.

There's plenty of cases where they spliced footage to purposely be deceptive. For instance [1], though Google has many more

[1]: https://entertainment.time.com/2011/03/13/the-twisty-bent-tr...

Why isn't Veritas a trusted news source? What does "trusted" mean in this instance? My biases: I tend to think the corporate press has less rigor in terms of sourcing/reporting claims than your average high school homework paper, which makes most of it not trustworthy 'news' to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas#Incidents

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