Capture lane

Digital and Tech Capture

The Digital and Tech Capture capture lane traces 589 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

589 events From Jan 1, 1970 To May 28, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-02-05Musk Proposes Rapid FAA Air Traffic Control System Safety Upgrades 4 src
Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Sean Duffy · Ed Markey
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2025-02-04Trump Signs Executive Order Restoring 'Maximum Pressure' Campaign Against Iran 2 src
Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · U.S. Treasury Department
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2025-02-04Trump's World Liberty Financial Makes Massive Ethereum Purchases Amid Market Volatility 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial
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2025-02-01Core Scientific / CoreWeave HPC conversion reaches 590 MW across six sites, $10.2B over 12 years — landmark Bitcoin-miner-to-AI-infrastructure pivot 5 src confirmed
2025-01-28OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Gov, Defining Federal AI Product Surface Eight Days into Trump-2 3 src
OpenAI · Sam Altman
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2025-01-21Stargate LLC announced at White House: $500B AI-infrastructure JV with UAE sovereign-adjacent $7B tranche from MGX 7 src confirmed
2025-01-17Crypto firms pour $18 million into Trump inauguration 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Coinbase · Ripple
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2025-01-17RFK Jr. Absent from CDC Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Exercise During Transition 2 src
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2025-01-15Grok AI Demonstrates Major Safety and Misinformation Vulnerabilities 3 src
Elon Musk · xAI
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2025-01-14Defense Secretary Nominee Hegseth Declines to Rule Out Military Force Against Greenland and Panama 2 src
Pete Hegseth
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2025-01-06First U.S. H5N1 Bird Flu Death Reported in Louisiana Patient 3 src
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Food and Drug Administration
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2024-12-31Healthcare Industry Spends Record $744 Million on Federal Lobbying in 2024, Pharmaceutical Sector Leads at $384 Million 4 src
PhRMA · American Medical Association · American Hospital Association · Health insurance industry · +1
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2024-12-30Federal Appeals Court Upholds $5 Million Carroll Verdict Against Trump 4 src
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Second Circuit Court of Appeals
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2024-12-24H-1B Civil War Peaks - Musk vs Bannon/Loomer on Immigration Policy 3 src
Elon Musk · Steve Bannon · Laura Loomer · Vivek Ramaswamy
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2024-12-06Palantir and Anduril Launch AI Defense Consortium, Later Expand to SpaceX, OpenAI, and Scale AI 5 src
Palantir Technologies · Anduril Industries · Alex Karp · Palmer Luckey · +4
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2024-12-04OpenAI Partners with Anduril to Integrate AI into Weapons Systems 2 src
OpenAI · Anduril Industries · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey
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2024-11-26Varda Space Industries Wins $48M AFRL "Prometheus" Contract for Military Hypersonic Reentry Testing 7 src
Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · Pentagon
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2024-11-24Vitali Klitschko Confronts Joe Rogan for Promoting Russian Propaganda on Ukraine, Rogan Defends Kremlin Narratives 3 src
Joe Rogan · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · RT (Russia Today)
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2024-11-15Anthropic Secures Comprehensive FedRAMP High Certification for Government AI Deployment 3 src
Anthropic · Palantir · General Services Administration · AWS
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2024-11-14Crypto Industry Advances Self-Regulatory Framework Amid Global Compliance Push 3 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC
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2024-11-04Meta Provides Llama AI Models to US Government and Military Contractors 3 src
Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · Lockheed Martin · Palantir · +6
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2024-10-20Eight Washington State Poultry Workers Infected with H5N1 During Depopulation Operations 3 src
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · USDA
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2024-10-16Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Settle Charges of Defrauding Pentagon, Bribing Qatar, and Patriot Contract Fraud 4 src
Raytheon · Department of Justice · Qatar · U.S. Department of Defense · +1
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2024-10-03NGA Awards BlackSky $290M Luno A Contract for AI-Powered Global Surveillance 4 src
BlackSky Technology · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital · +1
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2024-09-20HHS Awards Palantir $12M SHARE BPA Task Order for ACF Unaccompanied Children Bureau Expansion — Task Order 75P00124F37005 4 src
Palantir Technologies · Department of Health and Human Services · HHS Program Support Center
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2024-09-04Justice Department Seizes 32 Russian Disinformation Domains Mimicking U.S. News Sites, Exposes Kremlin Operation Directed by Putin Aide 2 src
Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · Vladimir Putin
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2024-09-01Anduril Deploys 300th Autonomous Surveillance Tower at U.S.-Mexico Border 2 src
Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey
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2024-09-01Pennsylvania SCIPNet deploys Carbyne APEX across four counties, becoming first state NG911 system with $3.5 million contract 3 src
Carbyne
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2024-08-29Kylian Mbappé Twitter Account Hacked to Promote $464M Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scam 3 src confirmed
2024-08-20Defense Contractors Market Ukraine War as "Battle-Tested" Surveillance Technology Proving Ground 3 src
Anduril Industries · Palantir Technologies · Clearview AI
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2024-08-15Grok AI Implements Enhanced Safety Protocols After Regulatory Pressure 5 src
Elon Musk · xAI
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2024-08-08Anduril Announces Arsenal-1: $1 Billion Weapons Manufacturing Facility in Ohio 2 src
Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey
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2024-08-01Larry Ellison Buys $277 Million Florida Resort Near Mar-a-Lago, $450M Total Investment 3 src
Larry Ellison · Oracle · Donald Trump
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2024-07-16xAI Faces Major Criticism Over Grok AI Safety Failures 3 src
Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak
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2024-07-15xAI Implements Comprehensive AI Safety Protocols in Response to Investigations 4 src
Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak
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2024-07-08G42's Mandated China Divestment Is Absorbed by Tahnoon's Own Lunate Fund — Exposing the 'Divestment' as Portfolio Reorganization 5 src
G42 · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan · Microsoft · Bureau of Industry and Security
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2024-06-30EU Regulators Launch Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI Data Privacy Practices 3 src
Elon Musk · xAI · Irish Data Protection Commission
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2024-06-27Supreme Court Rejects $6B Purdue Pharma Settlement Granting Sackler Family Immunity from Opioid Lawsuits 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · Department of Justice
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2024-06-15xAI Implements Controversial AI Safety Framework Amid Industry Scrutiny 3 src
Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak
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2024-05-22House Oversight Launches Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI's Safety and Government Deployment 4 src
Robert Garcia · Stephen Lynch · Elon Musk · xAI · +5
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2024-05-22Regulatory Bodies Begin Investigating Grok AI Safety Practices 10 src
Elon Musk · xAI · Elizabeth Warren · U.S. House Oversight Committee
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2024-05-15xAI Announces Enhanced Safety Protocols for Grok Chatbot at AI Seoul Summit 3 src
Elon Musk · xAI · Boaz Barak
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2024-04-24Anduril Wins Air Force Contract for Autonomous Fighter Jet Program 2 src
Anduril Industries · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey
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2024-04-23Axon Releases Draft One AI System to Automate Police Report Writing from Body Camera Audio 5 src
Axon · OpenAI · Microsoft · Electronic Frontier Foundation
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2024-04-23Justice Department Pays $138.7 Million Settlement Over FBI's Failure to Investigate Nassar Allegations 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · W. Jay Abbott · Michael Langeman · +3
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2024-03-25H5N1 Bird Flu First Detected in U.S. Dairy Cattle in Texas 3 src
USDA · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Food and Drug Administration
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2024-03-25UK Lawmakers Accuse Google of Breaking AI Safety Pledge with Gemini 2.5 Pro Release 4 src confirmed
2024-03-22Irish Data Protection Commission Launches Grok AI Regulatory Investigation 3 src
Elon Musk · Irish Data Protection Commission
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2024-03-21DOJ Sues Apple for iPhone Monopoly Maintained Through Ecosystem Lock-In and Developer Restrictions 3 src
Department of Justice · Apple · Tim Cook
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2024-03-20Musk's xAI Grok Faces Mounting Safety Scrutiny, Secures $200M Pentagon Contract 4 src
Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · U.S. Department of Defense
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2024-02-23Federal Agents Charge Two with $400,000 NFT 'Rug Pull' Money Laundering Scheme 3 src
HSI · DHS (Department of Homeland Security)
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2024-02-16Judge Engoron Issues $454 Million Fraud Judgment Against Trump, Bans NY Business Operations 4 src
Arthur Engoron · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Donald Trump Jr. · +3
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2024-02-15AI Ethics Study Highlights Systemic Bias and Misinformation Risks in Grok AI 4 src
Elon Musk
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2024-02-15Chicago Terminates ShotSpotter Contract After Years of Criticism 3 src
ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department
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2024-02-15First Major Grok AI Safety Failure Documented 3 src
Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers
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2024-02-15xAI Grok AI Faces Initial Government Safety Scrutiny 3 src
Elon Musk · xAI · Public Citizen · Color of Change
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2024-02-12Biden Approves $136 Billion in Targeted Student Debt Relief - 3.7 Million Borrowers Through Alternative Programs 3 src
Joe Biden · Miguel Cardona
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2024-02-01Russian Military Systematically Acquires and Uses Starlink Terminals in Ukraine 3 src
Elon Musk · Vladimir Putin · Starlink
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2024-01-24Ring ends 'Request for Assistance' feature allowing police to request user footage 3 src
Ring · Amazon
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2024-01-16JetBlue-Spirit Merger Blocked by Court, Rare Victory for Biden Antitrust Enforcers 3 src
Department of Justice
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2024-01-01Union Membership Collapses to 9.9%, Completing 70-Year Labor Destruction Campaign 3 src
American workers · Bureau of Labor Statistics
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2023-12-31Northrop Grumman Spends $10.86 Million on Lobbying with 29 Revolving Door Officials 3 src
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee
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2023-12-15AI Safety Experts Reveal Grok Vulnerability Patterns 4 src
AI Safety Researchers · xAI · Elon Musk
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2023-12-15Security Experts Raise Alarms About Grok AI's Lack of Safety Guardrails 3 src
Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers
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2023-12-07Washington Post Workers Strike Against Bezos—First Walkout in Nearly 50 Years Over Job Cuts and Stalled Negotiations 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Washington Post
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2023-11-02Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted on All Counts in 'One of the Biggest Financial Frauds in American History' 3 src
Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · U.S. Department of Justice
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2023-10-09Dataminr Provides LAPD Real-Time Surveillance of Gaza War Protests, Expanding First Amendment Monitoring 2 src
Dataminr · LAPD
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2023-10-05Metro Emergency Communications deploys Carbyne AI-powered 911 system in Provo, Orem, and Lindon, Utah 3 src
Carbyne
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2023-08-15Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Receives Top Secret Clearance for Intelligence Community 3 src
Oracle · Intelligence Community · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency
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2023-08-01Thiel-Backed goTenna Contracted for "Off-Grid Facial Recognition" with U.S. Air Force 6 src
Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · In-Q-Tel · U.S. Air Force
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2023-07-31Joe Rogan Promotes January 6 False Flag Conspiracy Theory, Claims FBI Orchestrated Insurrection to Frame Trump 2 src
Joe Rogan · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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2023-07-10FTC Loses Microsoft-Activision Challenge, $69 Billion Merger Approved Despite Opposition 3 src
Federal Trade Commission · Microsoft Corporation
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2023-07-01Amazon Refuses to Bargain with JFK8 Union, Pioneering Refuse-to-Bargain Union-Busting Tactic 3 src
Amazon · Amazon Labor Union · National Labor Relations Board
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2023-07-01Trump Crypto Empire Raises Major Constitutional Conflict of Interest Concerns 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · World Liberty Financial · MGX · +1
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2023-06-26SVB Executives Sold $84 Million in Stock Before Bank Collapse 4 src
Greg Becker
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2023-06-15AT&T partners with Carbyne as authorized reseller, integrating Israeli surveillance tech into national telecom infrastructure 3 src
AT&T · Carbyne · Ehud Barak
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2023-06-14Commerce Department Designates Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group as National Security Threat for PLA Support—Five Years After Carbyne Co-Founder Worked There 3 src
Bureau of Industry and Security · Frontier Services Group · Erik Prince · CITIC Group · +3
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2023-05-31FTC fines Ring $5.8 million for employees' illegal surveillance of customers' private videos 3 src
Ring · Amazon · Federal Trade Commission
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2023-05-30Second Circuit Reverses District Court, Reinstates Sackler Immunity Deal 3 src
Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice
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2023-05-09Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation of E. Jean Carroll, Awards $5 Million 4 src
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan
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2023-04-26Ukraine Launches Brave1 State-Backed Defense and Surveillance Technology Platform 3 src
Ukraine Ministry of Defence
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2023-04-22Palantir Partners with Ukraine Prosecutor to Process War Crimes Evidence Using AI 3 src
Palantir Technologies
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2023-04-19Trump Second NFT Collection Sells Out While Revealing Substantial Digital Asset Income 3 src
Donald Trump · CIC Digital LLC
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2023-04-12Yemeni Civilians File Lawsuit Against Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics for Enabling War Crimes 2 src
Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · General Dynamics · Saudi Arabia
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2023-03-19Swiss Government Forces Emergency UBS Acquisition of Credit Suisse After Regulatory Failure, Ending 167 Years of Swiss Banking History 3 src confirmed
2023-03-15Hill and Valley Forum Third Annual Dinner — TikTok-Ban Coalition Coordination, Speaker McCarthy, Pre-Shou Zi Chew Testimony Staging 5 src
Jacob Helberg · Kevin McCarthy · Brendan Carr · Peter Thiel · +2
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2023-03-10Silicon Valley Bank Collapses in $212 Billion Bank Run, Third-Largest U.S. Bank Failure Caused by Regulatory Rollback 3 src
Greg Becker · FDIC · Federal Reserve · Elizabeth Warren · +1
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2023-01-31FTC Loses Challenge to Block Meta's VR Acquisition, Major Setback for Khan 3 src
Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan
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2023-01-11Amazon Refuses to Negotiate with JFK8 Union After NLRB Certification - Stalls Contract for Over a Year 3 src
Amazon · Amazon Labor Union · Christian Smalls · National Labor Relations Board
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2023-01-01Amazon AWS Government Contracts Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Scale 3 src
Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Pentagon · +1
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2022-12-30House Ways and Means Committee Releases Six Years of Trump Tax Returns 4 src
House Ways and Means Committee · Donald Trump · Internal Revenue Service · U.S. Treasury Department
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2022-12-12FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested, Charged with Campaign Finance Violations and $8 Billion Fraud 3 src
Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1
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2022-11-18Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Theranos Fraud, Exposing Regulatory Failures 3 src
Elizabeth Holmes · U.S. Department of Justice · Theranos · Food and Drug Administration · +1
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2022-11-11FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses in $32 Billion Fraud, Exposing Crypto Regulation Failure 3 src
Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Changpeng Zhao · Binance · +2
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2022-10-27Elon Musk Completes Twitter Acquisition with Substantial Saudi and Qatari Investment 3 src
Elon Musk · Qatar Investment Authority · Larry Ellison
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2022-08-19Oracle Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over "Surveillance Machine" Tracking 5 Billion People 3 src
Oracle
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2022-08-08Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash with Chainalysis Providing Analysis 3 src
OFAC · Chainalysis · U.S. Treasury
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2022-07-13Ring admits providing police with warrantless access to user footage 11 times in 2022 3 src
Ring · Amazon · Ed Markey
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2022-07-01Oracle Launches "Project Texas" with TikTok, $1 Billion Data Storage Partnership 3 src
Oracle · TikTok · ByteDance
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2022-06-27Three Arrows Capital Ordered Into Liquidation After $3 Billion Hedge Fund Collapse Triggers Crypto Contagion 4 src
Three Arrows Capital · Voyager Digital · Celsius Network
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