Claim 398

O'Keefe said his seized phones contained reporters' notes and confidential source information unrelated to the diary case.

Published 2026-09-22. Last reviewed 2026-09-22. 1 source.

Statement: O'Keefe said his seized phones contained reporters' notes and confidential source information unrelated to the diary case.
Field: effect_on_reporting
Value: Phones contained reporting material
About: incident 2021-fbi-raids-project-veritas-founder-okeefe
Source: Project Veritas founder detained, phones seized amid FBI raid of his home
Publisher: U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Method: outlet report
Checked: 2026-09-22
Confidence: medium
Status: current
Source date: 2021-11-06

Quotation from the source

On my phone were many of my reporter's notes, a lot of my sources unrelated to this story and a lot of confidential information to our news organization.