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March 24, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Project Veritas has won a victory as part of its defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, with New York Supreme Court Justice Charles Wood denying the paper’s motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit concerning its coverage of the conservative group’s investigation of ballot harvesting in Minnesota.
Last September, Project Veritas released undercover video detailing an alleged ballot-harvesting scheme orchestrated by allies of Minnesota Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar. The Times characterized the group’s work as “deceptive,” not in its opinion pages but in ostensible news reporting, prompting the lawsuit.
“Stating that the video is ‘deceptive’ and stating ‘without verifiable evidence’ in a factual way in a news article certainly presents the statement as fact, not opinion,” Wood wrote in his decision. “Further, the [Maggie] Astor and [Tiffany] Hsu Articles [the authors of the reporting in question] could be viewed as exposing Veritas to ridicule and harm to its reputation as a media source because the reader may read these news Articles, expecting facts, not opinion, and conclude that Veritas is a partisan zealot group, deceptively editing
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