Project Veritas Says FBI Internally Declared It a Media Outlet Before Claiming It Is Not

James O'Keefe, founder Project Veritas, at the Values Voter Summit in Washington on Oct. 12, 2019. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

The FBI deemed Project Veritas a media outlet in an internal document before claiming in public it does not conduct journalism, the nonprofit journalism group said in a new court filing.

An FBI whistleblower was said to have passed the document to Project Veritas. It states that the bureau opened an investigation on Oct. 29, 2020, under the designation of “news media.”