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I see a woman telling all sorts of things she can do and supposedly has done in an edited interview (unfortunately I haven't found any archive where unedited footage is available, I'd be interested in his mode of questioning as an interviewer - again, not saying this facetiously). I don't really have a position unless an investigation takes place that confirms what she has said. I've done interviews (largely for research purposes) and have heard the wildest stories in excruciating detail that had no merit or factual basis whatsoever. I assume Veritas will support or has handed the evidence they have to law enforcement.
Concerning the peer review part, I should probably clarify - journals have an impact factor which is calculated primarily via citations by other scholars. There are plenty of garbage journals with a low (to no) impact factor that will take whatever you throw at them. Heck, usually you just pay them a certain fee. When I mention peer review, I am excluding these, because no one in academia takes them seriously. Even in peer reviewed journals, many articles still aren't all that great and are cited rarely. Similarly, books published by academic press are rated largely on their citation by other scholars (To give an example, the book in which Project Veritas is featuered by multiple scholars has ~418 citations, which is pretty decent. Benkler, Y., Faris, R., & Roberts, H. (2018 <). Network propaganda: Manipulation, disinformation, and radicalization in American politics. Oxford University Press)
Unfortunately one of the major issues is that to this day, media, pretty much everywhere (speaking anecdotally, from what I've read over the years), suck major balls at reporting science, distinguishing between decent journals and garbage journals and interpreting and reporting data (I wrote my first bachelor thesis on that subject using data generated through mixed-methods from multiple newspapers, though for a different country, that I resided in at the time). I wasn't really referring to journalists as peer-reviewers in this regard, as this is simply an area too big in scope and variance to make any generalized statement about and I therefore hold no opinion (though ofc bias exists and therefore, as you say, some papers/media outlets of course report differently depending on alignment - just making sure it is clear I am not at all denying that reality) - at least, based on the knowledge I have on the subject matter, I could not, though this might differ for you depending on your literacy on this topic of course.
Edit: Also sorry for typos or weird sentence structure, it is way, way past midnight where I am and I am barely awake.
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