Capture lane

Financial Capture

The Financial Capture capture lane traces 859 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

859 events From Jan 1, 1142 To Jun 17, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1142–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-04-11Musk's DOGE Team Gains Control of Federal Payment System 3 src
Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Chuck Schumer · Ron Wyden
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2025-04-10Federal Judges Establish Precedent for Presidential Accountability 4 src
Federal Judiciary · U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Rebecca Slaughter · +3
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2025-04-10Fired US Federal Trade Commissioners Sound Alarm on Potential Data Access Misuse 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Rebecca Slaughter
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2025-04-10Judicial System Struggles with Presidential Accountability Mechanisms 3 src
Department of Justice
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2025-04-10Mass Judicial Removal Attempt Triggers Constitutional Emergency 3 src
Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · Department of Justice
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2025-04-08Justice Department Disbands National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team 3 src
Donald Trump · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration
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2025-04-05Trump family’s cash registers ring as financial meltdown plays out 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-04World Liberty Financial Sells $25 Million in Tokens Days Before DOJ Crypto Unit Disbanded 5 src
Trump Family · World Liberty Financial · Department of Justice
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2025-04-03Resistance is futile, make a deal: Trump's tariff message to the world 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-02DOT announces enforcement grace period for new emissions standards 4 src
Department of Transportation · Trump Administration
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2025-04-02Two more law firms reach deals with Trump to avoid executive orders: 'they're all bending' 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-01Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's Mansion Set on Fire, Family Forced to Flee 3 src confirmed
2025-04-01Rural internet program on hold as Musk's satellites get new consideration 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1
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2025-04-01State Department plans $400 million payment to Tesla after regulatory firings 5 src
State Department · Tesla · Elon Musk · Donald Trump
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2025-03-31Trump commutes sentence of convicted fraudster who aided GOP impeachment effort 3 src
Donald Trump · Devon Archer
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2025-03-31Trump Family Launches American Bitcoin Corp. with Hut 8 3 src
Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr.
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2025-03-31Trump Family Takes Control of World Liberty Financial Crypto Venture 3 src
Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Zach Witkoff · Justin Sun
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2025-03-28FDIC says banks can engage in crypto activities without prior approval 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · FDIC
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2025-03-28SEC Launches Crypto Task Force with Significant Staffing Changes 3 src
Paul Atkins
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2025-03-28Trump pardons four founders of BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange convicted of money laundering 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-03-25DOGE cuts allow Musk to cash in with SpaceX and Starlink government contracts 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Mikie Sherrill
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2025-03-25Trump's World Liberty Financial Announces USD1 Stablecoin with Binance Backing 4 src
Donald Trump · Zach Witkoff · Justin Sun · Trump Administration
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2025-03-21FinCEN interim final rule exempts all U.S.-formed entities and U.S. persons from Corporate Transparency Act beneficial-ownership reporting 8 src confirmed
2025-03-19SEC Drops Landmark Lawsuit Against Ripple Labs After Political Shifts 3 src
Donald Trump · Mark Uyeda
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2025-03-18DOGE Audit Controversy: Inflated Savings Claims and Potential Conflicts of Interest 3 src
Elon Musk · U.S. Treasury Department
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2025-03-17Pulte Purges 14 Directors from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Boards, Installs Himself as Chairman of Both GSEs 8 src
Bill Pulte · FHFA · Fannie Mae · Freddie Mac
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2025-03-17Trump's World Liberty Financial Raises $550 Million in Crypto Token Sales 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial · Justin Sun
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2025-03-15Supreme Court Conducts Unprecedented Hearing on Presidential Emoluments 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration
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2025-03-15Trump administration coerces law firms into $940 million of free legal work 5 src
Trump Administration · Paul Weiss · Kirkland & Ellis · Latham & Watkins · +1
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2025-03-14AG Pam Bondi Announces Federal Investigation into Tesla Vandalism 4 src
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk
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2025-03-13Inside Elon Musk's 'Digital Coup' in Trump Administration 3 src
Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt
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2025-03-13Top Trump official's crypto ties raise red flags as the administration touts digital assets 4 src
Donald Trump · Howard Lutnick · Elizabeth Warren · Trump Administration
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2025-03-11Trump calls Tesla boycott ‘illegal’ and says he’s buying one to support Musk 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-03-10Amazon pays $40 million for Melania documentary in apparent quid pro quo arrangement 3 src
Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Melania Trump · Donald Trump
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2025-03-10It's 'shoot first and ask questions later' as DOGE tries to dismantle CFPB: Official 7 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1
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2025-03-10Legal Resistance Network Litigation Summit 3 src confirmed
2025-03-10Strategic Litigation Coordination Summit: Multi-State Legal Resistance 3 src
American Civil Liberties Union · New Civil Liberties Alliance
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2025-03-07Elon Musk's Starlink Expands Rapidly in Federal Government Infrastructure 3 src
Elon Musk · SpaceX · Starlink · Donald Trump · +4
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2025-03-06Trump Issues Border Tariff Executive Orders Using Drug Enforcement Pretext 8 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-03-03DOGE Demands $4 Million from OPM for Workforce Reduction Planning 3 src
Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management
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2025-03-03Trump Raises China Tariffs to 20 Percent Using Synthetic Opioid Justification 12 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-03-02Treasury announces suspension of Corporate Transparency Act enforcement against U.S. citizens and domestic reporting companies 6 src confirmed
2025-03-02Trump Establishes Strategic Crypto Reserve, Expanding U.S. Digital Asset Strategy 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Treasury Department · U.S. Department of Commerce
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2025-03-01Blue Owl $425M Net Lease CMBS Loan Transferred to Special Servicer SitusAMC as Occupancy Collapses to 36% 3 src
Blue Owl Capital · Big Lots
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2025-03-01Federal Agencies Fire 62,530 Workers in Two Months - 41,311% Increase Over 2024 3 src
Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Interior · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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2025-02-27CFPB Drops Major Lawsuits Against Capital One and Other Financial Firms 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Russell Vought
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2025-02-27SEC Declares Meme Coins Not Subject to Securities Regulations 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2025-02-27US SEC, Tron founder Justin Sun explore resolution of civil fraud case 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2025-02-26Trump order calls for creation of DOGE-linked agency payment-tracking systems 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-02-24SEC Closes Investigation into Robinhood Crypto Division Without Enforcement Action 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-02-22Musk’s cost-cutting team is laying off workers at the auto safety agency overseeing his car company 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-02-21CFPB Drops Lawsuit Against Solo Funds, Signaling Regulatory Capture 3 src
Donald Trump · Russell Vought
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2025-02-21Coinbase says SEC intends to drop lawsuit against crypto exchange 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Securities and Exchange Commission
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2025-02-21DOGE put him in the Treasury Department. His company has federal contracts worth millions 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-02-20Kyle Lutnick Appointed to Newmark Group Board as Father Becomes Commerce Secretary
Brandon Lutnick · Howard Lutnick · Cantor Fitzgerald
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2025-02-17Coins, watches and more: A look at Trump's crypto-related ventures, by the numbers 3 src
Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Barron Trump · +1
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2025-02-15154,000 Federal Employees Accept Deferred Resignation Program Buyouts 7 src
Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management · Federal employees
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2025-02-15Capital One CFPB case dropped after $1 million inauguration donation 6 src
Donald Trump · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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2025-02-15Federal Courts Grapple with Unprecedented Emoluments Enforcement Challenge 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration
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2025-02-15Trump systematically fires federal officials investigating Elon Musk's companies 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk
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2025-02-14How Trump's Justice Department has Gutted the Government's Ability to Chase Public Corruption 4 src
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration
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2025-02-11Trump Administration Explores Consolidating Banking Regulators 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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2025-02-11Trump Administration Halts CFPB Operations, Freezing Consumer Protection Investigations 3 src
Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Elizabeth Warren
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2025-02-11Trump Signs Executive Order for Large-Scale Federal Workforce Cuts Under DOGE 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Trump Administration
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2025-02-10Trump pardons multiple financial criminals and white-collar offenders 3 src
Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich · Scott Jenkins · Devon Archer · +1
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2025-02-09CFPB Headquarters Shuttered as Staff Ordered to Stop All Work 5 src
Russell Vought · Mark Paoletta · Gavin Kliger · Department of Government Efficiency · +1
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2025-02-06Attorney General Bondi Dramatically Narrows FARA Prosecutorial Scope 3 src
Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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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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2025-02-02Trump administration purges 8,000+ climate web pages from federal agencies 4 src
Trump Administration · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · NOAA · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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2025-02-01Trump fires the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 3 src
Donald Trump · Rohit Chopra · Scott Bessent
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2025-01-31U.S. Global Change Research Program dismantled with staff removed 4 src
White House · Russ Vought · Elon Musk
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2025-01-30Paramount in settlement talks with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-01-29DOJ moves to drop charges against former GOP lawmaker in case criticized by Trump 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-01-29Trump Media Launches Truth.Fi FinTech Brand with $250M Investment Strategy 3 src
Donald Trump · Devin Nunes · Trump Media & Technology Group
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2025-01-26DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Secretly Received $80,000 Dark Money Cut While Governor 4 src
Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2025-01-25Trump Fires 17 Independent Watchdogs Across Multiple Federal Agencies 5 src
Donald Trump · Chuck Grassley
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2025-01-25Trump pardons financial criminals including wire fraud convict and money launderers 3 src
Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich
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2025-01-24Trump fires 18 Inspectors General in unprecedented purge of government watchdogs 7 src
Donald Trump · Robert Storch
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2025-01-23Interior Secretary Doug Burgum Signs Ethics Agreement to Divest Oil and Gas Interests 5 src
Doug Burgum · Department of Interior · Microsoft
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2025-01-22Sacks Sells $74K Bitwise ETF Position One Day After Inauguration — 44 Days Before EO Designating Same Five Assets 7 src
David Sacks · Craft Ventures · Elizabeth Warren
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2025-01-20Commerce Secretary Lutnick Maintains $600 Million Tether Stake Despite DOJ Investigation and Senate Scrutiny 5 src
Howard Lutnick · Cantor Fitzgerald · Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1
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2025-01-20Coordinated Federal Workforce Purge: Schedule F and DOJ Personnel Removal 4 src
Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · National Treasury Employees Union · American Federation of Government Employees
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2025-01-20Trump Implements Unprecedented Wave of Project 2025 Executive Orders 3 src
Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Tom Homan · John Ratcliffe · +2
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2025-01-19Melania Trump launches $MELANIA coin with suspicious trading netting insiders $99.6M 4 src
Melania Trump · World Liberty Financial · Chris Murphy
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2025-01-17Trump launches crypto memecoin days before inauguration 12 src
Donald Trump · Melania Trump
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2025-01-15Northern Mariana Islands in "Very Dire" Fiscal Crisis as Tourism Collapse and Federal Aid Ends 2 src
Government Accountability Office (GAO) · U.S. Congress
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2025-01-15Patrizia Cavazzoni's FDA to Pfizer Move Epitomizes Regulatory Capture 3 src
Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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2024-12-19SEC Charges Cantor Fitzgerald $6.75 Million for Misleading SPAC Disclosures 3 src
Securities and Exchange Commission · Cantor Fitzgerald · Howard Lutnick
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2024-12-01President Biden Issues Full Pardon for Son Hunter Despite Repeated Promises Not To 4 src
Joe Biden · Hunter Biden · Department of Justice
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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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2024-11-06Private Prison Stocks Soar After Trump's 2024 Victory: CoreCivic Up 29%, GEO Group Up 42% in Single Session 4 src
Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group · Tom Homan · +1
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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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2024-10-24Treasury Reveals $1.1 Billion in Epstein Wire Transfers to Russian Banks 3 src
Jeffrey Epstein · Ron Wyden · U.S. Treasury Department · Russian banks
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2024-09-19General Dynamics Virginia-Class Submarine Program Revealed to Be $17 Billion Over Budget with 2-3 Year Delays 3 src
General Dynamics · U.S. Navy
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2024-09-16Sean Combs arrested on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges 3 src
Sean Combs · Department of Justice · Federal Prosecutors
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2024-09-13State Department Exposes RT as Fully Integrated Russian Intelligence Operation with Embedded Cyber Capabilities 4 src
State Department · Antony Blinken · RT (Russia Today) · U.S. Treasury Department
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2024-09-05Tenet Media Shuts Down, YouTube Terminates Channels, Blaze Media Fires Lauren Chen After DOJ Indictment Exposure 4 src
Tenet Media · Lauren Chen · Tim Pool · Dave Rubin · +3
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2024-08-31OpenAI Signs AI Safety Institute Testing Agreement 3 src
Sam Altman · OpenAI
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2024-08-29Kylian Mbappé Twitter Account Hacked to Promote $464M Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scam 3 src confirmed