Project Veritas and the Surveillance State

Laura Jedeed
8 min readMar 30, 2022

Dispatches from the Project Veritas Rabbithole

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Growing up, my mother had a small quote framed over her desk:

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an art, but a habit.”
-Aristotle

I was warned, but I did not listen. Earlier this year I spent a week of my one and only life watching ten years’ worth of Project Veritas videos on double speed to prepare for an assignment, and now it’s too late. I am…

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Laura Jedeed

Freelance journalist, filthy pleb. Politics mostly. Find my work at NYMag, Politico, Rolling Stone, New Republic, and Substack: https://laurajedeed.substack.com