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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| 2024-11-15 | Anthropic Secures Comprehensive FedRAMP High Certification for Government AI Deployment Anthropic · Palantir · U.S. intelligence agencies · Defense agencies · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-14 | Crypto Industry Advances Self-Regulatory Framework Amid Global Compliance Push Cryptocurrency Industry Consortium · Financial Stability Board · European Securities and Markets Authority · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-04 | Meta Provides Llama AI Models to US Government and Military Contractors Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · US government agencies · Lockheed Martin · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-20 | Eight Washington State Poultry Workers Infected with H5N1 During Depopulation Operations Washington State Department of Health · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Benton-Franklin Health District · USDA | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-16 | Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Settle Charges of Defrauding Pentagon, Bribing Qatar, and Patriot Contract Fraud Raytheon · Department of Justice · Qatar · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-03 | NGA Awards BlackSky $290M Luno A Contract for AI-Powered Global Surveillance BlackSky Technology · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | HHS Awards Palantir $12M SHARE BPA Task Order for ACF Unaccompanied Children Bureau Expansion — Task Order 75P00124F37005 Palantir Technologies · Department of Health and Human Services · Administration for Children and Families · Office of Refugee Resettlement · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-04 | Justice Department Seizes 32 Russian Disinformation Domains Mimicking U.S. News Sites, Exposes Kremlin Operation Directed by Putin Aide Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · Sergei Kiriyenko · Vladimir Putin · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-01 | Anduril Deploys 300th Autonomous Surveillance Tower at U.S.-Mexico Border Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-01 | Pennsylvania SCIPNet deploys Carbyne APEX across four counties, becoming first state NG911 system with $3.5 million contract South Central Inter-County Phone Network Pennsylvania · Carbyne · Adams County Pennsylvania · Cumberland County Pennsylvania · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-29 | Kylian Mbappé Twitter Account Hacked to Promote $464M Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scam Kylian Mbappé · Unknown Hackers · Sahil Arora | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-20 | Defense Contractors Market Ukraine War as "Battle-Tested" Surveillance Technology Proving Ground Anduril Industries · Palantir Technologies · Clearview AI · Defense Industry | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-15 | Grok AI Implements Enhanced Safety Protocols After Regulatory Pressure Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Review Board · U.S. AI Safety Institute | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-08 | Anduril Announces Arsenal-1: $1 Billion Weapons Manufacturing Facility in Ohio Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey · State of Ohio | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-01 | Larry Ellison Buys $277 Million Florida Resort Near Mar-a-Lago, $450M Total Investment Larry Ellison · Oracle · Donald Trump · Manalapan | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-16 | xAI Faces Major Criticism Over Grok AI Safety Failures Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | xAI Implements Comprehensive AI Safety Protocols in Response to Investigations Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-30 | EU Regulators Launch Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI Data Privacy Practices Elon Musk · xAI · Irish Data Protection Commission · European Data Protection Board · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects $6B Purdue Pharma Settlement Granting Sackler Family Immunity from Opioid Lawsuits U.S. Supreme Court · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-15 | xAI Implements Controversial AI Safety Framework Amid Industry Scrutiny Elon Musk · xAI · The Midas Project · AI Safety Experts · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | House Oversight Launches Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI's Safety and Government Deployment Robert Garcia · Stephen Lynch · Elon Musk · xAI · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | Regulatory Bodies Begin Investigating Grok AI Safety Practices Elon Musk · xAI · Senator Elizabeth Warren · Rep. Don Bacon · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-15 | xAI Announces Enhanced Safety Protocols for Grok Chatbot at AI Seoul Summit Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Consultants · Boaz Barak · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-24 | Anduril Wins Air Force Contract for Autonomous Fighter Jet Program Anduril Industries · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Axon Releases Draft One AI System to Automate Police Report Writing from Body Camera Audio Axon · OpenAI · Microsoft · Electronic Frontier Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Justice Department Pays $138.7 Million Settlement Over FBI's Failure to Investigate Nassar Allegations U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · W. Jay Abbott · Michael Langeman · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-25 | H5N1 Bird Flu First Detected in U.S. Dairy Cattle in Texas USDA · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Food and Drug Administration · Texas Department of Agriculture | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-25 | UK Lawmakers Accuse Google of Breaking AI Safety Pledge with Gemini 2.5 Pro Release Google DeepMind · Baroness Beeban Kidron · Des Browne · UK AI Safety Institute | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-22 | Irish Data Protection Commission Launches Grok AI Regulatory Investigation Elon Musk · Irish Data Protection Commission · X Corporation | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-21 | DOJ Sues Apple for iPhone Monopoly Maintained Through Ecosystem Lock-In and Developer Restrictions Department of Justice · Apple · Tim Cook · 16 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-20 | Musk's xAI Grok Faces Mounting Safety Scrutiny, Secures $200M Pentagon Contract Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · GSA AI Safety Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-23 | Federal Agents Charge Two with $400,000 NFT 'Rug Pull' Money Laundering Scheme Devin Alan Rhoden · Berman Jerry Nowlin Jr. · HSI · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-16 | Judge Engoron Issues $454 Million Fraud Judgment Against Trump, Bans NY Business Operations Arthur Engoron · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Donald Trump Jr. · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | AI Ethics Study Highlights Systemic Bias and Misinformation Risks in Grok AI Stanford HAI Researchers · Elon Musk · xAI Team · AI Ethics Researchers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | Chicago Terminates ShotSpotter Contract After Years of Criticism Brandon Johnson · ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | First Major Grok AI Safety Failure Documented Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-15 | xAI Grok AI Faces Initial Government Safety Scrutiny Elon Musk · Tech Regulators · xAI · GSA AI Safety Team · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-12 | Biden Approves $136 Billion in Targeted Student Debt Relief - 3.7 Million Borrowers Through Alternative Programs Joe Biden · Miguel Cardona | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-01 | Russian Military Systematically Acquires and Uses Starlink Terminals in Ukraine Elon Musk · Vladimir Putin · Russian military · Starlink · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-24 | Ring ends 'Request for Assistance' feature allowing police to request user footage Ring · Amazon | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-16 | JetBlue-Spirit Merger Blocked by Court, Rare Victory for Biden Antitrust Enforcers Department of Justice · JetBlue Airways · Spirit Airlines · Judge William Young | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-01 | Union Membership Collapses to 9.9%, Completing 70-Year Labor Destruction Campaign American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics · U.S. unions | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-31 | Northrop Grumman Spends $10.86 Million on Lobbying with 29 Revolving Door Officials Northrop Grumman · U.S. Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-15 | AI Safety Experts Reveal Grok Vulnerability Patterns AI Safety Researchers · David Rozado · xAI · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-15 | Security Experts Raise Alarms About Grok AI's Lack of Safety Guardrails Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · Kristian Hammond · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-07 | Washington Post Workers Strike Against Bezos—First Walkout in Nearly 50 Years Over Job Cuts and Stalled Negotiations Washington Post Guild · Jeff Bezos · Patty Stonesifer · Washington Post | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-02 | Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted on All Counts in 'One of the Biggest Financial Frauds in American History' Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · U.S. Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-09 | Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring Dataminr · LAPD · Talia Jane | confirmed | |
| 2023-10-05 | Metro Emergency Communications deploys Carbyne AI-powered 911 system in Provo, Orem, and Lindon, Utah Metro Emergency Communications Utah · Carbyne · Provo Utah · Orem Utah · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-15 | Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Receives Top Secret Clearance for Intelligence Community Oracle · Intelligence Community · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-01 | Thiel-Backed goTenna Contracted for "Off-Grid Facial Recognition" with U.S. Air Force goTenna · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · In-Q-Tel · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-31 | Joe Rogan Promotes January 6 False Flag Conspiracy Theory, Claims FBI Orchestrated Insurrection to Frame Trump Joe Rogan · Ray Epps · Federal Bureau of Investigation · House Select Committee on January 6 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-10 | FTC Loses Microsoft-Activision Challenge, $69 Billion Merger Approved Despite Opposition Federal Trade Commission · Microsoft Corporation · Activision Blizzard · Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-01 | Amazon Refuses to Bargain with JFK8 Union, Pioneering Refuse-to-Bargain Union-Busting Tactic Amazon · Amazon Labor Union · National Labor Relations Board · Chris Smalls | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-01 | Trump Crypto Empire Raises Major Constitutional Conflict of Interest Concerns Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · World Liberty Financial · MGX · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-26 | SVB Executives Sold $84 Million in Stock Before Bank Collapse Greg Becker · Daniel Beck | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-15 | AT&T partners with Carbyne as authorized reseller, integrating Israeli surveillance tech into national telecom infrastructure AT&T · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · AT&T Ventures | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-14 | Commerce Department Designates Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group as National Security Threat for PLA Support—Five Years After Carbyne Co-Founder Worked There Bureau of Industry and Security · Frontier Services Group · Erik Prince · CITIC Group · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-31 | FTC fines Ring $5.8 million for employees' illegal surveillance of customers' private videos Ring · Amazon · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-30 | Second Circuit Reverses District Court, Reinstates Sackler Immunity Deal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-09 | Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation of E. Jean Carroll, Awards $5 Million E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-26 | Ukraine Launches Brave1 State-Backed Defense and Surveillance Technology Platform Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Brave1 Cluster | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-22 | Palantir Partners with Ukraine Prosecutor to Process War Crimes Evidence Using AI Palantir Technologies · Ukraine Prosecutor General's Office · Andriy Kostin | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-19 | Trump Second NFT Collection Sells Out While Revealing Substantial Digital Asset Income Donald Trump · NFT INT LLC · CIC Digital LLC | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-12 | Yemeni Civilians File Lawsuit Against Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics for Enabling War Crimes Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · General Dynamics · Yemeni civilians · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-19 | Swiss Government Forces Emergency UBS Acquisition of Credit Suisse After Regulatory Failure, Ending 167 Years of Swiss Banking History Credit Suisse · UBS · FINMA · Swiss Federal Council · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-10 | Silicon Valley Bank Collapses in $212 Billion Bank Run, Third-Largest U.S. Bank Failure Caused by Regulatory Rollback Silicon Valley Bank · Greg Becker · FDIC · Federal Reserve · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-31 | FTC Loses Challenge to Block Meta's VR Acquisition, Major Setback for Khan Federal Trade Commission · Meta Platforms · Judge Edward Davila · Lina Khan | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-11 | Amazon Refuses to Negotiate with JFK8 Union After NLRB Certification - Stalls Contract for Over a Year Amazon · Amazon Labor Union · Christian Smalls · National Labor Relations Board | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | Amazon AWS Government Contracts Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Scale Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Pentagon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-30 | House Ways and Means Committee Releases Six Years of Trump Tax Returns House Ways and Means Committee · Richard Neal · Donald Trump · Internal Revenue Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-12 | FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested, Charged with Campaign Finance Violations and $8 Billion Fraud Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Theranos Fraud, Exposing Regulatory Failures Elizabeth Holmes · Edward Davila · U.S. Department of Justice · Theranos · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-11 | FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses in $32 Billion Fraud, Exposing Crypto Regulation Failure Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · Changpeng Zhao · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-27 | Elon Musk Completes Twitter Acquisition with Substantial Saudi and Qatari Investment Elon Musk · Prince Alwaleed bin Talal · Kingdom Holding Company · Qatar Investment Authority · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-19 | Oracle Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over "Surveillance Machine" Tracking 5 Billion People Oracle · Irish Council for Civil Liberties · Johnny Ryan · Mike Katz-Lacabe · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-08 | Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash with Chainalysis Providing Analysis OFAC · Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · Lazarus Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-13 | Ring admits providing police with warrantless access to user footage 11 times in 2022 Ring · Amazon · Brian Huseman · Ed Markey | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-01 | Oracle Launches "Project Texas" with TikTok, $1 Billion Data Storage Partnership Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance · TikTok U.S. Data Security Inc. | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-27 | Three Arrows Capital Ordered Into Liquidation After $3 Billion Hedge Fund Collapse Triggers Crypto Contagion Three Arrows Capital · Kyle Davies · Su Zhu · Monetary Authority of Singapore · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-06 | Nine of Thirteen Axon Ethics Board Members Resign After Company Announces Taser-Equipped Drones Without Consultation Axon · Barry Friedman · Wael Abd-Almageed · Miles Brundage · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-01 | Palantir Deploys AI Targeting and Intelligence Systems in Ukraine Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Volodymyr Zelenskyy | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-24 | UK Fines Clearview AI £7.5 Million for Breaching Data Protection Laws Information Commissioner's Office · Clearview AI · United Kingdom | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-13 | Terraform Labs Halts Terra Blockchain After Complete Collapse of UST and LUNA Destroys $40 Billion Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-10 | Chainalysis Raises $170 Million at $8.6 Billion Valuation in Series F Chainalysis · GIC · Singapore | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-09 | HHS Issues First Two SHARE BPA Task Orders to Palantir — $10.4M Combined for Enterprise Licenses and CARES Data Integration Palantir Technologies · Department of Health and Human Services · HHS Program Support Center · Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-09 | Terra's UST Algorithmic Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg, Triggering $40 Billion Death Spiral and Crypto Market Crash Do Kwon · Terraform Labs · Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-02 | Amazon Defeats Second Staten Island Union Vote at LDJ5 Facility 618 to 380 Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-15 | Tornado Cash Integrates Chainalysis Tool to Block OFAC-Sanctioned Addresses Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · OFAC | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-12 | Amazon Injury Rate Double Warehouse Industry Average - 6.8 Per 100 Workers Amazon · Strategic Organizing Center | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Amazon JFK8 Workers Vote to Form Company's First U.S. Union in Historic Victory Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-03 | Russian State Media Outlet RT America Ceases Operations and Lays Off All Staff After Major Distributors Drop Channel RT America · RT (Russia Today) · DirecTV · Roku · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-01 | Clearview AI Deploys Mass Facial Recognition Technology in Ukraine War Clearview AI · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Hoan Ton-That | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-25 | National $26 Billion Opioid Settlement with Distributors and J&J, Zero Executive Prosecutions McKesson · Cardinal Health · AmerisourceBergen · Johnson & Johnson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-02-15 | Pentagon Authorizes Oracle Cloud for Top Secret and Special Access Program Missions Oracle · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Air Force · Defense Information Systems Agency | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-13 | Judge Dismisses All Flint Criminal Charges on Technicality—Zero Accountability After Poisoning Thousands Elizabeth Kelly · F. Kay Behm · Rick Snyder · Michigan Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-03 | Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Convicted of Defrauding Investors in $9 Billion Fraud Scheme Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-01 | Anduril AI-Powered Drones Deployed to Ukraine Since 2022 Anduril Industries · Ukraine · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-15 | Harvard Study Finds Private Equity Hospital Takeovers Increase Emergency Room Deaths by 10% Private Equity Industry · Blackstone Group · KKR · TeamHealth · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-12-13 | USA Gymnastics Emerges from Bankruptcy with $380 Million Settlement for 500+ Nassar Survivors USA Gymnastics · Robyn Moberly · U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee · Simone Biles · +5 | confirmed |