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
2022-06-06Nine of Thirteen Axon Ethics Board Members Resign After Company Announces Taser-Equipped Drones Without Consultation 3 src
Axon · Rick Smith
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2022-06-01Palantir Deploys AI Targeting and Intelligence Systems in Ukraine 3 src
Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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2022-05-24UK Fines Clearview AI £7.5 Million for Breaching Data Protection Laws 3 src
Clearview AI · United Kingdom
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2022-05-13Terraform Labs Halts Terra Blockchain After Complete Collapse of UST and LUNA Destroys $40 Billion 4 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · Paul Engelmayer · South Korea
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2022-05-10Chainalysis Raises $170 Million at $8.6 Billion Valuation in Series F 3 src
Chainalysis
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2022-05-09HHS Issues First Two SHARE BPA Task Orders to Palantir — $10.4M Combined for Enterprise Licenses and CARES Data Integration 2 src
Palantir Technologies · Department of Health and Human Services · HHS Program Support Center
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2022-05-09Terra's UST Algorithmic Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg, Triggering $40 Billion Death Spiral and Crypto Market Crash 4 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · CFTC · Janet Yellen · Three Arrows Capital · +2
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2022-05-02Amazon Defeats Second Staten Island Union Vote at LDJ5 Facility 618 to 380 3 src
Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union
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2022-04-15Tornado Cash Integrates Chainalysis Tool to Block OFAC-Sanctioned Addresses 2 src
Chainalysis · OFAC
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2022-04-12Amazon Injury Rate Double Warehouse Industry Average - 6.8 Per 100 Workers 3 src
Amazon
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2022-04-01Amazon JFK8 Workers Vote to Form Company's First U.S. Union in Historic Victory 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union
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2022-03-03Russian State Media Outlet RT America Ceases Operations and Lays Off All Staff After Major Distributors Drop Channel 4 src
RT (Russia Today)
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2022-03-01Clearview AI Deploys Mass Facial Recognition Technology in Ukraine War 3 src
Clearview AI · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Hoan Ton-That
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2022-02-25National $26 Billion Opioid Settlement with Distributors and J&J, Zero Executive Prosecutions 3 src
Johnson & Johnson · State Attorneys General
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2022-02-15Pentagon Authorizes Oracle Cloud for Top Secret and Special Access Program Missions 3 src
Oracle · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Air Force
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2022-01-13Judge Dismisses All Flint Criminal Charges on Technicality—Zero Accountability After Poisoning Thousands 4 src
Rick Snyder
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2022-01-03Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Convicted of Defrauding Investors in $9 Billion Fraud Scheme 3 src
Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1
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2022-01-01Anduril AI-Powered Drones Deployed to Ukraine Since 2022 2 src
Anduril Industries · Ukraine · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey
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2021-12-15Harvard Study Finds Private Equity Hospital Takeovers Increase Emergency Room Deaths by 10% 3 src
Private Equity Industry · KKR
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2021-12-13USA Gymnastics Emerges from Bankruptcy with $380 Million Settlement for 500+ Nassar Survivors 5 src
USA Gymnastics · Aly Raisman
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2021-12-10Six Amazon Workers Killed in Edwardsville Warehouse Tornado Collapse 4 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2021-11-23Apple Sues NSO Group Over FORCEDENTRY Exploit and Pegasus Spyware Targeting 3 src
Apple · NSO Group · Citizen Lab
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2021-11-23Federal Jury Finds CVS, Walgreens, Walmart Liable for Fueling Ohio Opioid Crisis 3 src
Walgreens
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2021-11-16Jonathan Kanter Confirmed as DOJ Antitrust Chief After Longest Delay in Modern History 3 src
Jonathan Kanter · Department of Justice · U.S. Senate · Antitrust Division
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2021-11-09Office of Special Counsel Report Documents Hatch Act Violations by 13 Senior Trump Officials, Finding "Willful Disregard" for Federal Law 4 src
Mike Pompeo · Chad Wolf · Kellyanne Conway · Jared Kushner · +2
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2021-10-05Frances Haugen Senate Testimony Exposes Facebook Algorithmic Harm to Children and Democracy 4 src
Frances Haugen · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · U.S. Senate · +1
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2021-09-15Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, and Maggie Nichols Testify Before Senate on FBI's Betrayal in Nassar Case 5 src
McKayla Maroney · Aly Raisman · Christopher Wray · Senate Judiciary Committee · +4
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2021-09-01Bankruptcy Court Approves Sackler Immunity Deal Despite DOJ Opposition 3 src
Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice · State Attorneys General
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2021-08-15ShotSpotter Accuracy Crisis - Chicago Inspector General Report and Williams Case 3 src
ShotSpotter · Chicago Police Department
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2021-08-02NLRB Hearing Officer Rules Amazon Illegally Interfered in Bessemer Election, Recommends New Vote 3 src
National Labor Relations Board · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
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2021-07-29Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Indicted for Securities Fraud, Exposing How SPAC Loophole Enabled Investor Deception 3 src
Trevor Milton · Nikola Corporation · Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Department of Justice · +1
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2021-07-21Clearview AI Raises $30 Million Series B Funding Despite Widespread Privacy Violations 3 src
Clearview AI · Peter Thiel
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2021-07-09Biden Signs Executive Order 14036: 72 Competition Initiatives, Most Comprehensive Since FDR 3 src
Joe Biden · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice
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2021-07-06Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract, Creates Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability 3 src
Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Google · +1
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2021-06-24Chainalysis Raises $100 Million at $4.2 Billion Valuation in Series E 2 src
Chainalysis
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2021-06-15Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever 3 src
Lina Khan · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate · Federal Trade Commission
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2021-06-03FBI Investigates DeJoy Over Alleged Straw Donor Campaign Finance Scheme 4 src
Louis DeJoy · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Carolyn Maloney
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2021-05-28Biden Nominates Frank Kendall for Air Force Secretary After $702,000 in Northrop Grumman Consulting Fees 3 src
Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate
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2021-05-18Amazon extends Rekognition police ban indefinitely as Congressional regulation stalls 4 src
Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy · Jeff Bezos
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2021-04-09Amazon Defeats Bessemer Union Vote 1,798 to 738 After Intensive Anti-Union Campaign 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
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2021-03-18Cellebrite Halts Sales to Russia and Belarus After Human Rights Abuse Revelations 3 src
Cellebrite
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2021-03-05Palantir and AWS Formalize Strategic Partnership for Government Data Analytics 3 src
Palantir Technologies · Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · U.S. Department of Defense
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2021-02-08Amazon Launches Massive Anti-Union Campaign at Bessemer Alabama Warehouse 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union
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2021-02-03Canadian Privacy Commissioners Declare Clearview AI Represents "Mass Surveillance" of Citizens 2 src
Clearview AI
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2021-01-15PredPol Rebrands as Geolitica Amid Mounting Criticism of Racial Bias 3 src
PredPol
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2021-01-14Rick Snyder Charged With Misdemeanors for Poisoning Thousands—First Governor Ever Criminally Charged 3 src
Rick Snyder · Dana Nessel
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2021-01-01Hospital Price Transparency Rule Takes Effect with Widespread Non-Compliance and Weak CMS Enforcement 3 src
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Hospital corporations
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2020-12-14NBER Study Reveals Private Equity Nursing Home Ownership Increases Mortality 10%, Causes 20,000 Excess Deaths 4 src
Private equity firms · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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2020-11-20CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM 3 src
Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft · +2
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2020-11-03Judge Sullivan Orders Emergency USPS Ballot Sweeps, DeJoy Initially Defies Court Order 4 src
Emmet Sullivan · Louis DeJoy · USPS · Federal Courts
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2020-10-02Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19, Hospitalized at Walter Reed with Experimental Treatments 3 src
Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Mike Pence · Hope Hicks
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2020-10-01Amazon Discloses 19,816 Workers Infected with COVID-19 After Months of Concealment 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2020-09-26Trump Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court, Religious Conservative to Replace Liberal Icon Ginsburg 4 src
Donald Trump · Amy Coney Barrett · Mitch McConnell · Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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2020-09-24Ring announces Always Home Cam, autonomous drone for indoor home surveillance 3 src
Ring · Amazon
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2020-09-14HHS Spends $300 Million in Taxpayer Funds on "Defeating Despair" COVID Ad Campaign Timed to Promote Trump Before Election 4 src
Donald Trump · Alex Azar
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2020-08-24DeJoy House Testimony Refuses to Restore Mail Sorting Machines Despite Court Concerns 4 src
Louis DeJoy · Carolyn Maloney · Ro Khanna · USPS
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2020-08-13Epic Games Sues Apple Over App Store Monopoly and 30% Commission Tax on Developers 2 src
Apple · Tim Cook
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2020-08-13Trump Explicitly Admits Blocking USPS Funding to Restrict Mail Voting 4 src
Donald Trump · Louis DeJoy · USPS
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2020-07-01CBP Awards Anduril $25 Million for Autonomous Surveillance Towers at Border 2 src
Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey
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2020-06-25Wirecard Files for Insolvency After €1.9 Billion Goes Missing, Exposing Decade of EY Audit Failure and German Regulatory Capture 3 src confirmed
2020-06-19Oracle BlueKai Exposes Billions of Web Tracking Records in Unsecured Database 3 src
Oracle
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2020-06-10Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests 4 src
Amazon · AWS · Jeff Bezos
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2020-04-20Whole Foods Heat Map Tracks Stores at Risk of Unionization Using Diversity and Demographics 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2020-03-30Amazon Fires Christian Smalls for Organizing COVID Safety Protest 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls
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2020-03-06Trump Wears "Keep America Great" Campaign Hat During CDC Visit, Makes False Testing Claims 3 src
Donald Trump · Alex Azar · Mike Pence
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2020-02-20Axon Launches Axon Air Drone Platform, Integrating Aerial Surveillance into Police Evidence Ecosystem 3 src
Axon
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2020-02-14YouTube Terminates Nick Fuentes Channel for Hate Speech Violations 2 src
Nick Fuentes
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2020-02-07Trump Fires Impeachment Witnesses Vindman and Sondland in Coordinated Retaliation Purge 4 src
Donald Trump · Gordon Sondland · Mike Pompeo
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2020-01-31Bolton Book Manuscript Reveals Trump Directly Tied Ukraine Aid to Biden Investigation 3 src
John Bolton · Donald Trump · Mitch McConnell · Senate Republicans
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2020-01-31Senate Votes 51-49 to Block Witnesses in Impeachment Trial, Ensuring Trump Acquittal 3 src
Mitch McConnell · Mitt Romney · Susan Collins · Senate Republicans · +1
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2020-01-16Pelosi Transmits Impeachment Articles to Senate After 28-Day Strategic Delay 3 src
Nancy Pelosi · Mitch McConnell · Adam Schiff · Donald Trump
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2020-01-01McKinsey Advised Purdue on "Turbocharging" OxyContin Sales, Targeting High-Volume Prescribers 3 src
McKinsey & Company · Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family
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2020-01-01Wage Theft Steals More from Workers Than All Other Property Crime Combined 3 src
Corporate employers · U.S. Department of Labor
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2019-12-18House Votes to Impeach Trump on Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress 4 src
Donald Trump · Nancy Pelosi · Adam Schiff · House Democrats
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2019-12-03Rep. Duncan Hunter Pleads Guilty to Stealing Campaign Funds After Blaming Wife 3 src
Margaret Hunter · Donald Trump
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2019-11-21Fiona Hill Testifies - Giuliani Ran Shadow Ukraine Policy for "Domestic Political Errand" 3 src
Rudy Giuliani · John Bolton · Gordon Sondland · Donald Trump
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2019-11-20Sondland Testifies - "Was There a Quid Pro Quo? The Answer Is Yes. Everyone Was in the Loop." 3 src
Gordon Sondland · Mike Pompeo · Mike Pence · Mick Mulvaney · +2
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2019-11-16OMB Official Mark Sandy Testifies on Ukraine Aid Freeze, Reveals Two Colleagues Resigned Over Concerns 4 src
Donald Trump · Office of Management and Budget
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2019-11-15Ambassador Yovanovitch Testifies on Giuliani Smear Campaign and Removal from Ukraine Post 3 src
Rudy Giuliani · Donald Trump · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman
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2019-10-29Lt. Col. Vindman Testifies - "It Was Improper for the President to Demand Investigation of U.S. Citizen" 3 src
Donald Trump
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2019-10-22Acting Ukraine Ambassador Bill Taylor Testifies - Clear Quid Pro Quo for Biden Investigation 3 src
Gordon Sondland · Rudy Giuliani · Donald Trump
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2019-10-08Trump Blocks Ambassador Sondland Testimony, Declares Total Obstruction of Congress 3 src
Donald Trump · Gordon Sondland · Mike Pompeo · Adam Schiff
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2019-09-24Speaker Pelosi Announces Formal Impeachment Inquiry After Ukraine Revelations 3 src
Nancy Pelosi · Donald Trump · Adam Schiff · House Democrats
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2019-09-15Purdue Pharma Files Bankruptcy to Shield Sackler Family from Civil Lawsuits 3 src
Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Richard Sackler
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2019-09-14Raytheon's $15 Billion Patriot Missile System Fails Spectacularly, Allowing Drone Swarm to Cripple Saudi Oil Production 4 src
Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Iran · Mohammed bin Salman
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2019-09-02Amazon Warehouse Worker Billy Foister Dies on Warehouse Floor After Heart Attack 3 src
Jeff Bezos · Amazon
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2019-08-28Ring announces partnerships with 400+ police departments, building massive surveillance network 3 src
Ring · Amazon
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2019-08-13Jeffrey Epstein Sent Letter to Larry Nassar from Prison Days Before Suicide, Revealing Sex Offender Network 4 src
Jeffrey Epstein · Larry Nassar · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Justice
disputed
2019-08-12Intelligence Community Whistleblower Files Urgent Complaint About Trump-Zelensky Call 3 src
Michael Atkinson · Donald Trump
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2019-07-25Russell Vought Freezes Ukraine Aid on Trump Order, Triggering First Impeachment 3 src
Russ Vought · Donald Trump · Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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2019-07-25Trump Pressures Zelensky in Phone Call - "I Would Like You to Do Us a Favor Though" 3 src
Donald Trump · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Rudy Giuliani
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2019-06-27Axon Ethics Board Recommends Against Facial Recognition in Body Cameras, Company Agrees to Pause Development 3 src
Axon
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2019-06-07Trump Administration Approves Unprecedented Raytheon Technology Transfer to Let Saudis Build Bombs Domestically 4 src
Donald Trump · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Mohammed bin Salman · +1
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2019-05-29Mueller Warns Charging a Sitting President is Constitutionally Prohibited 4 src
Robert Mueller · William Barr
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2019-05-07Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch Recalled from Ukraine After Giuliani-Led Smear Campaign 4 src
Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman
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2019-05-01Academic Studies Document PredPol's Racial Bias and Ineffectiveness 3 src
PredPol · LAPD
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2019-02-14Northrop Grumman Pays $5.2 Million for Fraudulent USPS Contract Labor Billing 3 src
Northrop Grumman · Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service
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2019-02-01Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group Announces Xinjiang Training Facility Amid Uyghur Detention Campaign 4 src
Erik Prince · Frontier Services Group · CITIC Group
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2019-01-10The Intercept reveals Ring employees in Ukraine had unfettered access to customer video feeds 4 src
Ring · Amazon · Jeff Bezos
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2019-01-01Vance Returns to Ohio, Launches Narya Capital 3 src
J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Eric Schmidt · Marc Andreessen
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