Digital and Tech Capture
The Digital and Tech Capture capture lane traces 568 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1836–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
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| 2025-09-15 | Wall Street Journal: FEMA Paralyzed by Noem's Approval Requirements as Disaster Victims Wait Kristi Noem · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | reported | |
| 2025-09-14 | Trump Envoy Steve Witkoff Divests $120M Real Estate Stake While Retaining $350M in Assets Including Trump Crypto Steve Witkoff · Trump · Adam Schiff · World Liberty Financial | reported | |
| 2025-09-12 | Federal Appeals Court Upholds Trump Law Blocking Planned Parenthood Medicaid Reimbursements Donald Trump · Planned Parenthood · Federal Appeals Court | reported | |
| 2025-09-12 | SEC Drops Fraud Case Against Pardoned Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Trevor Milton · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · Nikola Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-12 | Trump Threatens Racketeering Investigation Against George Soros for Funding Protests Donald Trump · George Soros · Open Society Foundations · Department of Justice | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Bloomberg Obtains 18,000+ Epstein Emails Revealing Maxwell Relationship and Trump Name Removal Request Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Donald Trump · Bloomberg News | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-11 | FTC Launches Investigation into AI Companion Chatbots' Impact on Children Federal Trade Commission · Alphabet · Character.AI · Meta · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | State Department Adds 'Fidelity' Criterion, Retaliates Against Diplomats for Honest Analysis State Department · American Foreign Service Association · Donald Trump · Career Diplomats | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | DOJ Demands Detailed Voter Roll Data From 30+ States to Build Centralized National Database Department of Justice · Donald Trump · State election officials | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-09 | Ninth Circuit Upholds California Social Media Protection Law for Minors U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · NetChoice · California · Rob Bonta | reported | |
| 2025-09-08 | FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Threatens to Revoke Broadcast Licenses Over News Coverage Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Donald Trump · Comcast · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-08 | SpaceX Acquires $17 Billion EchoStar Spectrum for Starlink Direct-to-Cell Service SpaceX · Elon Musk · EchoStar · Gwynne Shotwell | reported | |
| 2025-09-06 | FBI Director Kash Patel's Krispy Kreme Stock Purchase Raises Conflict of Interest Concerns Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Krispy Kreme · Joe Neguse | reported | |
| 2025-09-01 | Treasury Awards Palantir Contract for Unified IRS API Layer, Creating Centralized Access to Taxpayer Data Palantir · U.S. Treasury Department · Internal Revenue Service · DOGE | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-29 | DHS Secretary Noem Fires 23 FEMA Employees, Demands Public Trump Praise, Announces IT Breach Kristi Noem · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Trump | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | Government Waives Performance Benchmarks for Intel Despite $11 Billion in Federal Support Trump · Intel · U.S. Department of Commerce | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | Trump Invokes 'Pocket Rescission' to Claw Back $4.9 Billion in Congressionally Approved Foreign Aid Trump · State Department · United States Agency for International Development · U.S. Congress | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | White House Orders GSA to Add Musk's Grok AI to Federal Vendor List 'ASAP' Despite Antisemitic Content Trump · White House · Elon Musk · General Services Administration | reported | |
| 2025-08-28 | White House Fires Surface Transportation Board Member Via Email Without Cause Trump · White House · Surface Transportation Board · Robert E. Primus | reported | |
| 2025-08-27 | Silicon Valley Launches $200 Million Super PAC to Block AI Regulations Ahead of Midterms Meta · Andreessen Horowitz · Greg Brockman · OpenAI | reported | |
| 2025-08-26 | Whistleblower Reveals Unprecedented Social Security Database Security Breach Charles Borges · John Solly · Michael Russo · Aram Moghaddassi · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-08-25 | Trump Signs Executive Orders Eliminating Cashless Bail, Threatening Federal Funds Donald Trump · White House · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | OMB Director Vought Blocks Billions in Congressional Appropriations, Claims Unilateral Spending Power Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Trump Converts CHIPS Act Grants to Government Equity Stake in Intel Howard Lutnick · Intel Corporation · SoftBank · U.S. Department of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Trump-Appointed US Attorney Investigates DC Police for 'Fake' Crime Data Jeanine Pirro · Donald Trump · DC Metropolitan Police · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-15 | Tech Workers Launch Coordinated Campaign Against Unregulated AI Development Tech Workers Coalition · AI Ethics Researchers · xAI Employees · Elon Musk · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-14 | Trump Eliminates SpaceX Environmental Safeguards via Executive Order Donald Trump · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Department of Transportation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-13 | Treasury Secretary Bessent Violates Ethics Agreement, Retains Millions in Conflicted Assets Scott Bessent · Office of Government Ethics · Department of the Treasury | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Demands Intel CEO Resignation, Then Reverses After Meeting Donald Trump · Lip-Bu Tan · Intel Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-04 | HHS Awards Palantir $19.8M SHARE BPA Task Order for Integrated Care and Case Management (ICCM) and Database Support — 64% of $90M Ceiling Committed Palantir Technologies · Department of Health and Human Services · HHS Program Support Center · Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Qualcomm Donates $1 Million to Trump-Aligned Dark Money Group Qualcomm · Securing American Greatness · Taylor Budowich · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Trump Orders States to Hand Over Medicaid, Food Assistance, and Voter Roll Data for Federal Surveillance U.S. Department of Homeland Security · USDA · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Government Efficiency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | U.S. Army Awards Palantir $10 Billion AI-Driven Software Contract U.S. Army · Palantir Technologies · U.S. Department of Defense · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-30 | California Judicial Council Establishes First Comprehensive AI Transparency Regulations California Judicial Council · US Federal Judicial Conference · xAI · AI Rights Advocacy Groups | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-15 | Grok AI Suffers Catastrophic Safety Failure, Exposing Critical AI Governance Gaps Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-14 | Defense Department Awards $200M Contract to Elon Musk's xAI for Grok AI Elon Musk · xAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-07 | Bovino Leads Military-Style Raid on MacArthur Park as Children Flee, Defies Mayor Bass Gregory Bovino · Karen Bass · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-02 | CDC Deactivates H5N1 Emergency Response Despite Ongoing Outbreak Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-02 | Joe Rogan Publicly Criticizes Trump's "Insane" ICE Raids, Says Feels "Betrayed" - Eight Months After Trump Endorsement Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Bernie Sanders · Bono | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-25 | FHFA Directs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to Consider Cryptocurrency as Mortgage Assets Donald Trump · William J. Pulte · Fannie Mae · Freddie Mac · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-15 | Legal Resistance Digital Coordination Platform Tech for Justice · Legal Resistance Network · Digital Rights Organizations | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-07 | Bovino's Home Depot Immigration Raid Standoff Triggers Trump's National Guard Deployment in LA Gregory Bovino · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · California National Guard · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | Anduril Raises $2.5 Billion at $30.5 Billion Valuation, Led by Founders Fund Anduril Industries · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · Palmer Luckey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-03 | Trump's Truth Social Takes Step Toward Launching Bitcoin ETF with NYSE Arca Filing Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · Yorkville America Digital · Foris DAX Trust Company · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-31 | Bono Confronts Joe Rogan Over Trump Administration USAID Cuts, Calls Them "Evil" - Influences Rogan's Subsequent Trump Criticism Bono · Joe Rogan · Elon Musk · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-23 | Trump's crypto dinner guests admit they're trying to buy him off Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Congressmen Sean Casten · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-22 | Trump hosts exclusive $148M cryptocurrency investor dinner at private golf club Donald Trump · $TRUMP coin holders · World Liberty Financial · Justin Sun · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-22 | Witkoff & Trump: Crypto Deal Blends Diplomatic Access with Financial Venture Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Steve Witkoff · Zach Witkoff · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-21 | Trump Administration Officially Accepts $400-500 Million Luxury Boeing 747 from Qatar as Air Force One Gift, Sparking Constitutional Crisis Over Foreign Emoluments and Bribery Donald Trump · Qatar · Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani · Chuck Schumer · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-20 | Advanced Legal Resistance Technology Platform Launched with AI-Powered Research Tools Legal Tech Innovators · Constitutional Law Technology Consortium · AI Legal Research Team · Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | Trump Commerce Secretary's Crypto Firm Ties to El Salvador Reveal Complex Business Networks Donald Trump · Howard Lutnick · Brandon Lutnick · Bo Hines | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-13 | The mystery of $MELANIA: First Lady's memecoin fuels $100M insider trading windfall Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Hayden Davis · Melania Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-11 | Trump Administration Systematically Drops Regulatory Cases Against Elon Musk Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-06 | SpaceX gets FAA permission for fivefold increase in Starship launches from Texas Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Trump Generates $350M Through Memecoin, Offering White House Access to Top Investors Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Sean Casten · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-02 | Abu Dhabi sovereign fund commits $2 billion to Trump-linked crypto venture MGX sovereign fund · Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan · World Liberty Financial · Donald Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-02 | Freight Technologies Purchases $20M in Trump Crypto to Lobby Against Tariffs Donald Trump · Javier Selgas · Freight Technologies Inc. | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-02 | NASA Proposal Shifts $6 Billion, Prioritizing Mars Missions and Commercial Space Interests Donald Trump · Trump Administration · NASA Leadership · SpaceX · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | Trump Threatens Secondary Sanctions Against Any Country Buying Iranian Oil Donald Trump · China | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-28 | Nexo Capital Announces U.S. Market Re-entry at Conference with Donald Trump Jr. Donald Trump Jr. · Antoni Trenchev · Gila Gamliel | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-28 | Tesla May Dodge Over $1 Billion in Regulatory Fines Due to Trump Administration Influence Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Richard Blumenthal · Edward Markey | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-25 | DOGE Building Master Immigration Enforcement Database with Palantir, Integrating IRS and Federal Agency Data DOGE · Elon Musk · Palantir · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Judge Rules Google Operates Illegal Ad Tech Monopoly, Orders Divestiture of Ad Business Judge Leonie Brinkema · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Trump Team Targets Politically Connected Startup Ramp for $700B Government Payments Overhaul Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · J.D. Vance · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-15 | Trump Launches Crypto Real Estate Video Game Venture Donald Trump · Bill Zanker · Kevin Mercuri · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Founders Fund Leads $50M Round for Enriched Uranium Startup General Matter; Peter Thiel Joins Board Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · General Matter · Scott Nolan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Musk's DOGE Team Gains Control of Federal Payment System Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · David Lebryk · Chuck Schumer · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Launch of Integrated Legal Technology Platform for Collaborative Resistance Legal Tech Innovations · Constitutional Litigation Consortium · Digital Defense Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-05 | Legal Resistance Tech Collaboration Platform Launch Electronic Frontier Foundation · Legal Tech Innovations · Digital Defense Fund | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | FCC Chair Carr Proposes Section 230 Reinterpretation at DOJ "Big-Tech Censorship" Forum Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | In-Q-Tel Reaches 800th Investment Milestone, Expanding Into AI and Quantum Computing In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency · Christopher Darby | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-27 | White House Establishes "The Arrests Will Continue. The Memes Will Continue" as Official Communications Doctrine Kaelan Dorr · Abigail Jackson · White House · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-18 | Starlink Installed at White House, Raising Major Security Concerns Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · SpaceX DOGE Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-14 | AG Pam Bondi Announces Federal Investigation into Tesla Vandalism Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-13 | Inside Elon Musk's 'Digital Coup' in Trump Administration Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-12 | Anduril Wins $642M Marine Corps Counter-Drone Contract for Base Protection Worldwide Anduril Industries · U.S. Marine Corps · Palmer Luckey · U.S. Department of the Navy | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | FAA Reviews Verizon Contract Amid Starlink Competition Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Verizon Communications · SpaceX · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-07 | Elon Musk's Starlink Expands Rapidly in Federal Government Infrastructure Elon Musk · SpaceX · Starlink · Donald Trump · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-07 | FCC Grants Starlink Controversial Direct-to-Cell Service Approval at Higher Power Levels Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Jay Schwarz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-07 | SpaceX Confirms Starlink Loan Agreement with FAA for Infrastructure Testing Elon Musk · SpaceX · Federal Aviation Administration · L3Harris Technologies · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-05 | Scale AI Wins Pentagon "Thunderforge" Contract for AI Military Planning, Partnering with Anduril Scale AI · Alexandr Wang · Pentagon · Defense Innovation Unit · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-27 | US SEC, Tron founder Justin Sun explore resolution of civil fraud case Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-26 | Musk's DOGE leads systematic CFPB shutdown, raising regulatory conflict concerns Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Linda Yaccarino · Russell Vought · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That Resigns Amid Facial Recognition Controversies Hoan Ton-That · Clearview AI · Hal Lambert · Richard Schwartz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | White House Posts "ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight" Video Packaging State Violence as Entertainment White House · Donald Trump · deportees | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Musk Proposes Rapid FAA Air Traffic Control System Safety Upgrades Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Sean Duffy · Ed Markey | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump Signs Executive Order Restoring 'Maximum Pressure' Campaign Against Iran Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · U.S. Treasury Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump's World Liberty Financial Makes Massive Ethereum Purchases Amid Market Volatility Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Crypto firms pour $18 million into Trump inauguration Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Coinbase · Kraken · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | RFK Jr. Absent from CDC Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Exercise During Transition Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Grok AI Demonstrates Major Safety and Misinformation Vulnerabilities Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Watchdog Groups · SaferAI · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-14 | Defense Secretary Nominee Hegseth Declines to Rule Out Military Force Against Greenland and Panama Pete Hegseth · Mazie Hirono | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-06 | First U.S. H5N1 Bird Flu Death Reported in Louisiana Patient Louisiana Department of Health · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Food and Drug Administration | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-31 | Healthcare Industry Spends Record $744 Million on Federal Lobbying in 2024, Pharmaceutical Sector Leads at $384 Million PhRMA · American Medical Association · American Hospital Association · Pharmaceutical Care Management Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-30 | Federal Appeals Court Upholds $5 Million Carroll Verdict Against Trump E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Second Circuit Court of Appeals | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-24 | H-1B Civil War Peaks - Musk vs Bannon/Loomer on Immigration Policy Elon Musk · Steve Bannon · Laura Loomer · Vivek Ramaswamy | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | Palantir and Anduril Launch AI Defense Consortium, Later Expand to SpaceX, OpenAI, and Scale AI Palantir Technologies · Anduril Industries · Alex Karp · Palmer Luckey · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-04 | OpenAI Partners with Anduril to Integrate AI into Weapons Systems OpenAI · Anduril Industries · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-26 | Varda Space Industries Wins $48M AFRL "Prometheus" Contract for Military Hypersonic Reentry Testing Varda Space Industries · Air Force Research Laboratory · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-24 | Vitali Klitschko Confronts Joe Rogan for Promoting Russian Propaganda on Ukraine, Rogan Defends Kremlin Narratives Joe Rogan · Vitali Klitschko · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · RT (Russia Today) | confirmed |