Capture lane

Media Capture & Control

The Media Capture & Control capture lane traces 618 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

618 events From May 26, 1836 To Mar 23, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2024-03-05Treasury Department Sanctions Intellexa Consortium and Tal Dilian
U.S. Treasury Department · Office of Foreign Assets Control · Tal Jonathan Dilian · Sara Aleksandra Fayssal Hamou · +2
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2024-02-15AI Ethics Study Highlights Systemic Bias and Misinformation Risks in Grok AI
Stanford HAI Researchers · Elon Musk · xAI Team · AI Ethics Researchers · +1
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2024-02-15First Major Grok AI Safety Failure Documented
Elon Musk · xAI · AI Safety Researchers · Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence · +2
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2024-02-09Meta makes political content non-recommended by default on Instagram and Threads
Meta · Instagram · Threads
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2024-02-02Joe Rogan Signs New $250 Million Spotify Deal, No Longer Exclusive
Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience
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2024-01-03Jeffrey Epstein Associates Documents Released to Public
Loretta Preska · Virginia Giuffre · Ghislaine Maxwell · Bill Clinton · +1
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2023-12-15AI Safety Experts Reveal Grok Vulnerability Patterns
AI Safety Researchers · David Rozado · xAI · Elon Musk
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2023-11-04xAI Launches Grok with Minimal Safety Guardrails
Elon Musk · xAI · Anthropic
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2023-09-08Fifth Circuit Finds Biden Administration Violated First Amendment Through Social Media Coercion
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · White House · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · +2
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2023-08-29X reverses 2019 ban, allows U.S. political ads; verified accounts prioritized in recommendations
X/Twitter · Elon Musk
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2023-08-24Trump Surrenders at Fulton County Jail, Mugshot Taken - First Presidential Mugshot in History
Donald Trump · Fani Willis
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2023-07-23Twitter Transformed to X with Systematic Content Moderation Rollback and Political Weaponization
Elon Musk · Twitter/X Platform · Center for Countering Digital Hate · Eddie Perez · +1
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2023-07-18SEC Charges DWAC with Securities Fraud, Imposes $18 Million Penalty
Securities and Exchange Commission · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group
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2023-06-29FBI Arrests Three in "Trust Social" Investigation for DWAC Insider Trading
Michael Shvartsman · Gerald Shvartsman · Bruce Garelick · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +4
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2023-06-23Jack Smith grants immunity to fake electors for testimony against Trump
Jack Smith · Michael McDonald · Jim DeGraffenreid · Donald Trump
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2023-06-02YouTube stops removing false claims about past U.S. elections
YouTube · Google
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2023-05-10Senate Hearing Exposes PBM Insulin Profiteering: 75% of Sales Go to Rebates and Fees
Bernie Sanders · Senate HELP Committee · Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen · Paul Hudson · +7
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2023-05-09Tucker Carlson Announces Move to Twitter/X, Forgoes $25 Million to Break Non-Compete
Tucker Carlson · Elon Musk · Twitter/X · Fox News · +1
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2023-03-27X prioritizes verified accounts for recommendations and polls
Elon Musk · X/Twitter
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2023-03-22Digital World Acquisition Corp Fires CEO Patrick Orlando Amid SEC Investigation
Patrick Orlando · Digital World Acquisition Corp · DWAC · Trump Media & Technology Group · +2
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2023-03-15DOJ Arrests Guo Wengui in Landmark $1 Billion Fraud Conspiracy
Guo Wengui · Ho Wan Kwok · Kin Ming Je · Department of Justice · +2
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2023-01-03Federal Court Orders Unsealing of Jeffrey Epstein Case Documents
Loretta Preska · Virginia Giuffre · Ghislaine Maxwell · Miami Herald · +1
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2023-01-03X expands permitted political advertising in the U.S.
X/Twitter · Elon Musk
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2022-12-15Trump Launches Massive NFT Collection Generating .4 Million in Initial Sales
Donald Trump
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2022-12-09Twitter Files Release Exposes Systematic Government-Social Media Coordination Infrastructure for Information Control and Democratic Manipulation
Elon Musk · Twitter/X Corporation · Matt Taibbi · Bari Weiss · +7
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2022-10-27Elon Musk Completes Twitter Acquisition with Substantial Saudi and Qatari Investment
Elon Musk · Prince Alwaleed bin Talal · Kingdom Holding Company · Qatar Investment Authority · +2
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2022-10-12Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $965 Million in Sandy Hook Defamation Trial
Alex Jones · Sandy Hook victim families · Connecticut Superior Court
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2022-10-01Sinclair Broadcasting Reaches 40% of US Households Through Local News Monopoly
Sinclair Broadcast Group · David Smith · Chris Ripley · Local News Stations
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2022-06-07FTC Launches Bipartisan Investigation into PBM Market Concentration and Drug Pricing
Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Chuck Grassley · Maria Cantwell · +3
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2022-06-06Milo Yiannopoulos Becomes Unpaid Intern for Marjorie Taylor Greene After Connecting Her to White Nationalists
Milo Yiannopoulos · Marjorie Taylor Greene · Nick Fuentes
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2021-11-03US Commerce Department Adds Candiru and NSO Group to Entity List
US Commerce Department · Bureau of Industry and Security · Candiru · NSO Group · +1
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2021-10-18NPR Documents How Hedge Fund Newspaper Ownership Creates News Deserts and Undermines Democracy - Over 2,500 Newspapers Closed Since 2005
Alden Global Capital · Local Newspapers · Hedge Funds · Communities · +1
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2021-10-03Pandora Papers Expose Global Elite's Offshore Financial Networks
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · King Abdullah II of Jordan · Andrej Babiš · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · +4
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2021-09-01Joe Rogan Announces He Treated COVID with Unproven Ivermectin, Sparking Medical Misinformation Controversy
Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience · Food and Drug Administration · +3
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2021-07-18Pegasus Project Exposes Global Surveillance of 50,000 Targets by NSO Group Clients
Forbidden Stories · Amnesty International · Citizen Lab · The Guardian · +3
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2021-07-04Jason Miller Launches Gettr with Hidden Guo Wengui Funding
Jason Miller · Guo Wengui · Gettr · Steve Bannon · +2
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2021-07-01Twitter Permanently Suspends Nick Fuentes, Completing Major Platform Deplatforming
Nick Fuentes
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2021-05-21Alden Global Capital Completes $633 Million Tribune Publishing Acquisition - "Vulture" Hedge Fund Becomes Second-Largest U.S. Newspaper Publisher
Alden Global Capital · Tribune Publishing · Randall D. Smith · Chicago Tribune · +3
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2021-05-13Leaked Video Exposes Heritage Action's $24 Million Voter Suppression Campaign Coordinating State Legislation
Heritage Action · Jessica Anderson · Heritage Foundation · Hans von Spakovsky · +5
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2021-04-06Stephen Miller Founds America First Legal to Challenge Biden Administration and Advance White Nationalist Agenda
Stephen Miller · Mark Meadows · Matthew Whitaker
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2021-01-20Freedom House Downgrades US Democracy Score to 83/100
Freedom House · United States · Donald Trump · Republican Party
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2021-01-20Trump Environmental Rollbacks Cause 80,000 Excess Deaths Per Decade
Donald Trump · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Scott Pruitt · Andrew Wheeler · +2
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2021-01-19Navalny Investigation Reveals Putin's Palace Complex
Vladimir Putin · Alexei Navalny · Arkady Rotenberg · Boris Rotenberg · +4
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2021-01-14Rick Snyder Charged With Misdemeanors for Poisoning Thousands—First Governor Ever Criminally Charged
Rick Snyder · Dana Nessel · Fadwa Hammoud
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2021-01-13House Impeaches Trump for Second Time on Single Charge of "Incitement of Insurrection"
Donald Trump · Nancy Pelosi · Liz Cheney · Adam Kinzinger · +1
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2021-01-07Facebook Bans Trump Only After He Loses Power, Following January 6 Insurrection It Enabled
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Oversight Board
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2021-01-06FBI forensics show Trump watched TV and tweeted instead of stopping Capitol riot
Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Jack Smith
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2021-01-06Nick Fuentes Rallies Supporters Outside Capitol During January 6 Insurrection
Nick Fuentes · Donald Trump
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2021-01-06Stephen Miller Writes Trump's January 6 Ellipse Speech, Adds Language About Pence Overturning Election
Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · Mike Pence
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2021-01-06Trump says "So what?" when told Pence evacuated for safety during Capitol riot
Donald Trump · Mike Pence · Nick Luna · Dan Scavino
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2021-01-02Trump Calls Georgia Secretary of State to Find 11,780 Votes
Donald Trump · Brad Raffensperger · Mark Meadows · Cleta Mitchell · +1
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2021-01-01Barre Seid Donates $1.6 Billion to Leonard Leo Dark Money Network
Barre Seid · Leonard Leo · Marble Freedom Trust
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2020-12-27Trump tells acting AG "just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me"
Donald Trump · Jeffrey Rosen · Richard Donoghue · Department of Justice
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2020-12-23DOJ Secret Court Order Targets Washington Post Journalists Days Before Barr's Resignation
William Barr · Michael R. Sherwin · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Courts · +4
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2020-12-10CNP Leadership Releases Letter Urging State Legislators to Reject 25 Million Votes
Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · Republican state legislators
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2020-11-30Giuliani admits to Arizona Speaker "We don't have evidence, but we have lots of theories"
Rudy Giuliani · Rusty Bowers · Donald Trump
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2020-11-12Newsmax CEO Admits "We Have No Evidence" of Election Fraud, Airs Claims 23 More Times
Christopher Ruddy · Newsmax · Smartmatic · 2020 Election · +1
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2020-11-03Facebook Rolls Back Election Safety Measures Immediately After 2020 Vote, Enabling "Stop the Steal" Misinformation
Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Frances Haugen · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-10-15YouTube Bans QAnon Content Only After Years of Algorithmic Amplification
YouTube · Google · QAnon movement · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2
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2020-10-14FBI Enables Social Media Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story Despite Knowing Authenticity
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Twitter · Facebook · Yoel Roth · +2
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2020-09-20FinCEN Files Reveal $2 Trillion in Suspicious Banking Transactions
FinCEN · BuzzFeed News · International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Jason Leopold · +8
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2020-08-25Secretary of State Pompeo Delivers Historic RNC Speech from Jerusalem Rooftop, Violating Hatch Act After Changing State Department Policy
Mike Pompeo · Donald Trump · Office of Special Counsel
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2020-08-13Trump Explicitly Admits Blocking USPS Funding to Restrict Mail Voting
Donald Trump · Louis DeJoy · USPS
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2020-08-13USPS Removes Mailboxes in Democratic Areas, Reverses After Public Outcry
Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump
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2020-08-01DeJoy Removes 711 Mail Sorting Machines During Mail-In Voting Surge
Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump · Federal Courts
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2020-07-10Trump Commutes Roger Stone Sentence Days Before Prison
Donald Trump · Roger Stone · William Barr · Randy Credico · +1
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2020-07-08Facebook shuts down 54 Roger Stone accounts spending $300K
Roger Stone · Facebook
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2020-07-04Trump Holds Mt. Rushmore Rally with 7,500 Packed, Maskless Attendees During Pandemic Surge
Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Kimberly Guilfoyle
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2020-07-01During Title 42, unaccompanied children were held in hotels by contractors (e.g., Hampton Inn) before expulsion attempts
Texas Civil Rights Project · MVM Inc. · ICE contractors · Detained families
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2020-06-15Louis DeJoy Begins Serving as Postmaster General Despite Conflicts of Interest
Louis DeJoy · Donald Trump · USPS Board of Governors
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2020-06-09FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +2
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2020-06-01Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Employees · +1
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2020-05-19Joe Rogan Signs $100-200 Million Exclusive Deal with Spotify
Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience
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2020-04-23Trump Suggests Injecting Disinfectant and UV Light Inside Body as COVID Treatments
Donald Trump · William Bryan
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2020-04-06HHS Inspector General Christi Grimm Reports Severe Hospital Shortages, Trump Attacks Her Credibility
Christi Grimm · Donald Trump · Jason Weida · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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2020-04-01Trump Awards $812M No-Bid COVID Contract to Newly Formed Phlow Corporation
Phlow Corporation · Peter Navarro · Kodak · Donald Trump · +1
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2020-03-06Trump Wears "Keep America Great" Campaign Hat During CDC Visit, Makes False Testing Claims
Donald Trump · Robert Redfield · Alex Azar · Mike Pence · +1
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2020-02-14YouTube Terminates Nick Fuentes Channel for Hate Speech Violations
Nick Fuentes
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2020-01-31Bolton Book Manuscript Reveals Trump Directly Tied Ukraine Aid to Biden Investigation
John Bolton · Donald Trump · Mitch McConnell · Senate Republicans
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2020-01-18New York Times Exposé Reveals Clearview AI's 3 Billion Photo Surveillance Database
Kashmir Hill · Clearview AI · Hoan Ton-That · New York Times
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2020-01-01Wage Theft Steals More from Workers Than All Other Property Crime Combined
Corporate employers · Low-wage workers · U.S. Department of Labor · State labor agencies
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2019-12-13Conservative Lawsuit Forces Wisconsin to Purge 200,000 Voters Before 2020 Election
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty · Wisconsin Elections Commission
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2019-11-12SPLC Exposes Stephen Miller White Nationalist Emails: 900 Messages Promoting Racist Literature and Hate Sites
Stephen Miller
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2019-10-25Maria Butina Released from Federal Prison and Immediately Deported to Russia After 15 Months
Maria Butina · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Federal Bureau of Prisons · Russian Government
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2019-10-17Zuckerberg Georgetown Speech Announces Facebook Will Not Fact-Check Political Ads, Licensing Trump Campaign Lies
Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook · Donald Trump · Joe Biden · +1
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2019-10-01Anne Nelson Publishes "Shadow Network" - Exposing CNP as Conservative Coordination Hub
Anne Nelson · Council for National Policy
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2019-10-01Zuckerberg Holds Secret White House Dinners with Trump, Kushner, and Thiel to Negotiate Content Moderation
Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Peter Thiel · +2
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2019-09-24Trump Freezes Ukraine Military Aid Demanding Biden Investigation
Donald Trump · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Rudy Giuliani · William Barr · +4
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2019-09-07MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito resigns after concealing $7.5 million in Epstein-linked donations
Joi Ito · Jeffrey Epstein · MIT Media Lab · MIT administration · +2
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2019-09-06Commerce Secretary Ross Threatens to Fire NOAA Scientists Who Contradicted Trump's False Hurricane Claim
Wilbur Ross · Donald Trump · Neil Jacobs · Craig McLean
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2019-08-26Oklahoma Wins $572 Million Verdict Against Johnson & Johnson for Opioid Public Nuisance
Thad Balkman · Johnson & Johnson · State of Oklahoma
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2019-08-06Bernie Sanders Appears on Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan Later Endorses Sanders for President
Joe Rogan · Bernie Sanders
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2019-06-28Florida Legislature Enacts "Poll Tax" Requiring Payment of Fines to Undermine Amendment 4
Ron DeSantis · Florida Legislature · Republican Party
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2019-06-27Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Joins Pfizer Board After 3-Month Gap
Dr. Scott Gottlieb · Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Senator Elizabeth Warren
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2019-06-27Supreme Court Rules Partisan Gerrymandering Beyond Federal Court Jurisdiction
U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Robert Rucho · Common Cause
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2019-06-25U.S. Student Debt Surpasses $1.6 Trillion - 107% Increase in a Decade
Federal Reserve
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2019-06-21E. Jean Carroll Publicly Accuses Trump of Sexual Assault in New York Magazine
E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump
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2019-06-13Michigan Drops All Criminal Charges in Flint Water Crisis, Promises New Investigation
Dana Nessel · Nick Lyon · Eden Wells · Darnell Earley
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2019-06-04Claims from Michael Wolff ('Siege') and later commentary; no public evidence of 'Trump money laundering' via Epstein
Jeffrey Epstein · Michael Wolff · Donald Trump
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2019-05-23Julian Assange Charged Under Espionage Act - Unprecedented Attack on Press Freedom
Julian Assange · WikiLeaks · Department of Justice · Trump Administration
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