Media Capture and Control
The Media Capture and Control capture lane traces 618 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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| 2026-03-23 | Supreme Court Declines Citizen Journalist Case, Sotomayor Dissents on First Amendment Arrest Supreme Court · Justice Sonia Sotomayor · Priscilla Villarreal · City of Laredo | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-20 | Judge Strikes Down Pentagon Press Policy Requiring Pledge Not to Gather Unauthorized Information Judge Paul L. Friedman · New York Times · Julian E. Barnes · Pentagon | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-19 | Journalist Estefany Rodriguez Released from ICE Custody After More Than Two Weeks Estefany Rodriguez · ICE · CPJ · RSF | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-16 | ICE-Detained Journalist Estefany Rodriguez Granted $10K Bond After 12 Days in Custody Estefany Rodriguez · ICE · Nashville Noticias | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-20 | FCC Chair Urges Broadcasters to Air 'Pro-America' Patriotic Content Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-20 | Trump Demands Netflix Remove Susan Rice from Board During Merger Review Donald Trump · Netflix · Susan Rice | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-19 | FCC Chair Confirms Investigation of ABC Over Equal-Time Violations on The View Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · ABC | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-14 | Trump Threatens Executive Order on Voter ID Despite Prior Court Defeats Donald Trump · White House · Chuck Schumer | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-13 | ACLU Files Amended Tincher v. Noem Complaint with 80+ Declarations of ICE First Amendment Retaliation American Civil Liberties Union · NewsGuild-CWA · Status Coup News · Kristi Noem · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | DOJ Arrests Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Over Church Protest Coverage Don Lemon · Georgia Fort · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Dhillon Refocuses Civil Rights Division on Voter Fraud as 70% of Staff Exit Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-26 | Bondi Requests Minnesota Voter Rolls Including Public Assistance Data for ICE Enforcement Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Minnesota · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-18 | Anti-ICE Protesters Disrupt St. Paul Church Service, Triggering Federal Crackdown on Journalists Cities Church · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · David Easterwood · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-14 | FBI Raids Washington Post Reporter's Home, Seizes Devices in Unprecedented Press Freedom Violation Federal Bureau of Investigation · Washington Post · Hannah Natanson · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-31 | US Press Freedom Tracker Documents 170 Assaults on Journalists in 2025, 160 by Law Enforcement U.S. Press Freedom Tracker · Freedom of the Press Foundation · Federal law enforcement · ICE · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-21 | Bannon Declares Conservative Movement Civil War at AmericaFest, Attacks Ben Shapiro as 'Cancer' Steve Bannon · Ben Shapiro · Mark Levin · Turning Point USA | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-21 | CBS News Editor Bari Weiss Pulls 60 Minutes CECOT Prison Abuse Segment Hours Before Broadcast Bari Weiss · CBS News · 60 Minutes · Sharyn Alfonsi · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-12 | DOJ Expands Voter Data Seizure Campaign to 18 States, Demanding Social Security Numbers and Driver's Licenses Department of Justice · Harmeet Dhillon · Jena Griswold · Bill Galvin · +5 | reported | |
| 2025-12-10 | Trump Intervenes in Netflix-Warner Bros Antitrust Review, Favoring Politically Connected Paramount Donald Trump · Netflix · Warner Bros. Discovery · Paramount · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-12-08 | Paramount Skydance Launches $108.4 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with Saudi, Qatari, and UAE Backing David Ellison · Larry Ellison · Saudi Public Investment Fund · Qatar Investment Authority · +12 | reported | |
| 2025-12-07 | ICE Data Reveals 75,000 Arrests Had No Criminal History in Quota-Driven Dragnet Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Stephen Miller · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Deportation Data Project · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-07 | Judge Blocks DOJ from Using Evidence Seized from Comey's Attorney in Fourth Amendment Ruling Colleen Kollar-Kotelly · Daniel Richman · James Comey · Department of Justice · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-12-06 | National Park Service Removes MLK Day and Juneteenth from Fee-Free Days, Adds Trump's Birthday Interior Department · National Park Service · Donald Trump · Doug Burgum · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-05 | NPR First Amendment Lawsuit Against Trump Reaches Pivotal Court Hearing on Retaliatory Funding Cuts NPR · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss · +11 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-04 | New York Times Sues Pentagon Over Restrictive Media Rules Requiring Publication Approval, Violating First Amendment The New York Times · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · NPR · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-03 | DOJ Sues Six Additional States Demanding Protected Voter Registration Data Department of Justice · Pamela Bondi · Harmeet K. Dhillon · Delaware · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-03 | State Department Orders H-1B Visa Denials for Content Moderation and Fact-Checking Workers State Department · Marco Rubio · Tech companies · H-1B visa applicants · +5 | reported | |
| 2025-12-03 | U.S. Institute of Peace Rebranded as 'Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace' After Armed Takeover Donald Trump · State Department · U.S. Institute of Peace · Federal Judiciary | reported | |
| 2025-12-03 | University of Alabama Shutters Black and Female Student Magazines Under DEI Directives University of Alabama · Steven Hood · Pamela Bondi · Alice Magazine · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-03 | White House Launches 'Media Bias Portal' Denunciation System Targeting Journalists and News Outlets Donald Trump · White House Press Office · Andrew Feinberg · Eric Garcia · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-12-02 | FDA Cancer Drug Chief Dr. Richard Pazdur Resigns After Three Weeks Under Political Pressure Dr. Richard Pazdur · Marty Makary · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Food and Drug Administration · +8 | reported | |
| 2025-12-02 | Voice of America Bureau Closures Surrender Strategic Information Space to Russia and China Donald Trump · Kari Lake · Voice of America · Federal Judiciary · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-11-30 | Kristi Noem Denies Defying Court Order on National Television, Calls Judges "Activist" Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. District Judge James Boasberg · Kristen Welker · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-29 | White House Launches Official 'Media Offenders' Portal Targeting Press as Enemies Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt · White House · The Washington Post · +23 | reported | |
| 2025-11-27 | USCIS Halts All Afghan Asylum Decisions After DC Shooting: Collective Punishment for Entire Nation Joseph Edlow · Marco Rubio · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-21 | Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Resignation After Trump Calls Her "Traitor" Over Epstein Files Marjorie Taylor Greene · Donald Trump · Rep. Ro Khanna · House Speaker Mike Johnson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-18 | Trump Administration Reinstates 'Public Charge' Rule: Immigrant Wealth Test Returns U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Joseph Edlow · Stephen Miller · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-17 | Kash Patel Assigns Elite FBI SWAT Team to Protect Girlfriend, Orders Agents to Drive Her Drunk Friend Home Kash Patel · Alexis Wilkins · Christopher O'Leary | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-16 | 60 Minutes Investigation: Former DOJ Officials Call Trump's Binance Pardon 'Unprecedented Corruption' CBS News · 60 Minutes · Scott Pelley · Elizabeth Oyer · +6 | reported | |
| 2025-11-15 | Bondi Announces New Epstein Investigation Days Before House Vote, Creating Cover for Redactions Pam Bondi · Jay Clayton · Donald Trump · Thomas Massie · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-11-14 | Trump Orders DOJ via Truth Social to Investigate Political Opponents Over Epstein Ties Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Bill Clinton · Larry Summers · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-11-14 | Trump Publicly Turns on Marjorie Taylor Greene, Calls Her RINO Over Epstein Files Support Donald Trump · Marjorie Taylor Greene | reported | |
| 2025-11-12 | House Democrats Release Epstein Estate Emails Documenting Trump-Victim Contact and Trafficking Knowledge Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Donald Trump · Michael Wolff · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-12 | House Republicans Release 20,000+ Epstein Pages in Response to Democrat Emails, Accuse "Cherry-Picking" U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Jeffrey Epstein · Donald Trump · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-12 | Rep. Lauren Boebert Summoned to White House Situation Room Over Epstein Files Petition Lauren Boebert · Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Kash Patel · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-10 | Trump Issues Proclamation for Marine Corps 250th Anniversary Emphasizing Military Spending Increase Donald Trump · JD Vance | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-09 | Trump Promises $2,000 'Tariff Dividend' Payments Despite Insufficient Revenue and Treasury Secretary Skepticism Donald Trump · Scott Bessent | reported | |
| 2025-11-07 | Cornell University Agrees to Pay $60 Million and Accept Federal Oversight to Restore Research Funding Cornell University · Michael Kotlikoff · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-11-07 | ICE Bans Prayer Outside Broadview Detention Center Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Michael Pfleger · Thomas Mills · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-07 | Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Full SNAP Payments to 42 Million Americans U.S. Supreme Court · Ketanji Brown Jackson · John McConnell Jr. · U.S. Department of Agriculture · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-11-06 | Trump Announces Kazakhstan Joining Abraham Accords Despite Existing Diplomatic Relations with Israel Since 1992 Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · Kassym-Jomart Tokayev | reported | |
| 2025-11-05 | Judge Scolds Comey Prosecutors for "Indict First, Investigate Second" Approach James Comey · Pam Bondi · Lindsey Halligan | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-05 | Zohran Mamdani Elected NYC Mayor: First Muslim, Youngest in Century Zohran Mamdani · Andrew Cuomo · Curtis Sliwa · Eric Adams | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-04 | Pope Leo XIV Calls for ICE to Allow Clergy Access to Detained Migrants Pope Leo XIV · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Cardinal Blase Cupich · Broadview ICE Processing Center · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-10-30 | DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into Black Lives Matter Foundation for Alleged Donor Fraud Department of Justice · Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation · U.S. Attorney's Office Central District of California · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-10-30 | Trump Officials Flee to Military Bases: Miller, Noem, Hegseth, Rubio Create Militarized "Green Zone" Charlie Kirk · Kristi Noem · Marco Rubio · Pete Hegseth · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-29 | DOJ Indicts Democratic Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh for ICE Facility Protest Kat Abughazaleh · Department of Justice · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Catherine Sharp · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-27 | Elon Musk's xAI Launches Grokipedia to Challenge Wikipedia with AI-Generated Content Elon Musk · xAI | reported | |
| 2025-10-27 | NPR Sues After Corporation for Public Broadcasting Cancels $36M Contract Under Trump Pressure Corporation for Public Broadcasting · CPB executives · Donald Trump · NPR | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-27 | Trump Suggests Running as VP to Circumvent Constitutional Term Limits Donald Trump · Steve Bannon | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-27 | Tucker Carlson Interviews Nick Fuentes, Exposing Republican Rift Over Antisemitism Tucker Carlson · Nick Fuentes · Ben Shapiro · Ted Cruz · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-23 | Border Patrol Commander Bovino Throws Tear Gas at Chicago Protesters, Violating Court Order Gregory Bovino · Judge Sara Ellis · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Pentagon Replaces Mainstream Media with MAGA Propaganda Outlets in Press Corps Pete Hegseth · Pentagon · mainstream media outlets · far-right media | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-22 | Trump Orders Demolition of Historic White House East Wing for Personal Ballroom Donald Trump · U.S. Treasury Department · White House Staff | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-21 | Trump Fires Export-Import Bank Inspector General as Oversight Purge Continues Donald Trump · Parisa Salehi · Inspectors General | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-20 | North Carolina GOP Advances Mid-Decade Redistricting to Eliminate Black Representative North Carolina Republican Party · Sen. Ralph Hise · Rep. Don Davis | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-19 | Federal Prosecutor Elizabeth Yusi Fired After Refusing to Charge NY AG Letitia James Elizabeth Yusi · Kristin Bird · Letitia James · Trump · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-18 | Federal Prosecutor Fired for Refusing Trump Demand to Indict Letitia James Elizabeth Yusi · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-17 | Two Federal Prosecutors Fired After Refusing to Bring Charges Against Letitia James Elizabeth Yusi · Kristin Bird · Erik Siebert · Letitia James · +5 | reported | |
| 2025-10-13 | Trump Accelerates Authoritarian Agenda With Mass Purges and Political Prosecutions Donald Trump · New York Attorney General · Federal Workforce · Business Leaders | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | DOJ Indicts New York AG Letitia James on Bank Fraud Charges After Trump Pressure Campaign Letitia James · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-10-09 | Treasury's $20 Billion Argentina Bailout Benefits Bessent's Hedge Fund Colleagues Scott Bessent · Stanley Druckenmiller · Robert Citrone · Elizabeth Warren · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-04 | Two Senior Virginia Prosecutors Purged After Resisting Political Prosecutions Lindsey Halligan · James Comey · Letitia James · Eastern District of Virginia · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | DOJ Fires Top National Security Prosecutor Michael Ben'Ary Based on False Social Media Post Michael Ben'Ary · Department of Justice · Julie Kelly · U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of Virginia · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-10-01 | Pope Leo XIV: Inhuman Treatment of Immigrants 'Not Pro-Life' Pope Leo XIV · Trump Administration · White House · Senator Dick Durbin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-26 | FBI Director Patel Fires 15-20 Agents Photographed Kneeling at 2020 George Floyd Protests Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · FBI Agents Association · Christopher Wray | reported | |
| 2025-09-26 | Gabbard Terminates Global Trends Intelligence Report and Unit Over Climate Change Analysis Tulsi Gabbard · DNI · Jake Sullivan | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | DOJ Orders Federal Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros' Open Society Foundations for Alleged Terrorism Ties Department of Justice · George Soros · Open Society Foundations · Aakash Singh · +3 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | DOJ Sues Six States to Seize Voter Data Including Social Security Numbers and Driver's Licenses Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · California · Michigan · +4 | reported | |
| 2025-09-25 | Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former FBI Director James Comey for Disclosure of Sensitive Information James Comey · Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-20 | Eastern District of Virginia US Attorney Erik Siebert Resigns Under Trump Pressure to Charge Letitia James Erik Siebert · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Letitia James · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-17 | FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens ABC License Revocation, Disney Suspends Kimmel 'Indefinitely' Brendan Carr · Jimmy Kimmel · ABC · Disney · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Deputy Secretary Landau Announces Visa Sanctions for Foreign Comments on Charlie Kirk Death Christopher Landau · State Department · Charlie Kirk | reported | |
| 2025-09-11 | Kennedy Center Fires Jazz Director in Continued Cultural Institution Purge Richard Grenell · Kevin Struthers · Jason Moran · Kennedy Center | reported | |
| 2025-09-10 | Trump Threatens to Sue New York Times Over Reporting on Epstein Drawing Signed by Him Donald Trump · New York Times · James Comer · Jeffrey Epstein | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Director of National Intelligence Gabbard Orders NSA Report Retraction to Shield Trump Officials Tulsi Gabbard · Richard Grenell · National Security Agency · Marco Rubio | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | DOJ Demands Detailed Voter Roll Data From 30+ States to Build Centralized National Database Department of Justice · Donald Trump · State election officials | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-09 | Foreign Governments Fund MAGA Influencers for Propaganda Without Proper Disclosure Israel · Hungary · South Korea · MAGA influencers · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Ninth Circuit Upholds California Social Media Protection Law for Minors U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · NetChoice · California · Rob Bonta | reported | |
| 2025-09-08 | CBS Appoints Trump Ally Kenneth Weinstein as Network Ombudsman Following Merger Pressure Kenneth Weinstein · Donald Trump · CBS News · Paramount · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-08 | FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Threatens to Revoke Broadcast Licenses Over News Coverage Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Donald Trump · Comcast · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-08 | Missouri GOP Passes Mid-Decade Gerrymander to Eliminate Democratic Congressional Seat Missouri GOP legislature · Representative Emmanuel Cleaver · Trump Administration | reported | |
| 2025-09-03 | Military Jets Drown Out Epstein Survivors Press Conference at Capitol Epstein survivors · Donald Trump · U.S. Air Force · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-29 | Federal Prosecutors Charge Veteran for Flag Burning Following Trump DOJ Directive Despite Supreme Court Precedent Department of Justice · Trump · Federal Prosecutors | reported | |
| 2025-08-19 | Nexstar-Tegna $6.2 Billion Merger Creates Media Giant Reaching 80% of US Households nexstar-media-group · tegna · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-18 | Trump Pledges Executive Order to Ban Mail-In Voting After Putin Meeting Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-08 | EPA Terminates Union Contracts Following Appellate Stays U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · AFGE Council 238 (8,000+ EPA workers) · Justin Chen (AFGE Council 238 President) · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Paramount-Skydance Merger Completes After FCC Approval Paramount Global · Skydance Media · David Ellison · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Skydance-Paramount deal closes with contentious FCC regulatory conditions Skydance · Paramount Global · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | Federal Judge Strikes Down Key Parts of California's Deepfake Laws Federal Judge · X · Twitter · California | confirmed |