Capture lane

Media Capture and Control

The Media Capture and Control capture lane traces 629 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

629 events From May 26, 1836 To Jun 25, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2026-06-25Vance Calls Watergate 'a 12-Hour News Story' from the Nixon Library, Casts Nixon as a Deep-State Victim 3 src
J.D. Vance · Richard Nixon · Donald Trump
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2026-06-07Public Integrity Project Sues to Block UFC Freedom 250 White House Event; Judge Mehta Orders Briefing; Trump TKO Stock Holding Disclosed 7 src
Donald Trump · Judge Amit Mehta · David Ellison · Department of the Interior
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2026-05-27CBS News Declines to Renew Sharyn Alfonsi's Contract After CECOT Segment Conflict with Bari Weiss 6 src
Sharyn Alfonsi · Bari Weiss · CBS News · 60 Minutes · +6
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2026-05-16Santa Fe New Mexican Court Reporter Phaedra Haywood Surfaces Wormuth-Ellison-Skinner Legal Architecture and Criminal-Information Workaround in NDA Trespass Coverage 2 src confirmed
2026-05-13ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit Against Memphis Safe Task Force Alleging Pattern of First Amendment Retaliation Against Civilians Recording Federal Immigration Enforcement 5 src
American Civil Liberties Union · Todd Blanche · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +5
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2026-04-21ACLU of New Mexico Publishes 'The Invisible Military Bases at the Border' Report Documenting 4,600+ Federal Trespass Cases and 109,651 Acres of National Defense Areas in NM Alone 2 src
U.S. Department of Defense
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2026-04-15Objection.ai Launches: Thiel-Backed AI Tribunal Automates Journalist Targeting, D'Souza Explicitly Frames as Gawker-Model Industrialization
Peter Thiel
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2026-03-23Supreme Court Declines Citizen Journalist Case, Sotomayor Dissents on First Amendment Arrest 3 src
Supreme Court · Sonia Sotomayor
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2026-03-20Judge Strikes Down Pentagon Press Policy Requiring Pledge Not to Gather Unauthorized Information 5 src
New York Times · Pentagon
confirmed
2026-03-19Journalist Estefany Rodriguez Released from ICE Custody After More Than Two Weeks 3 src
ICE
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2026-03-16ICE-Detained Journalist Estefany Rodriguez Granted $10K Bond After 12 Days in Custody 3 src
ICE
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2026-02-20FCC Chair Urges Broadcasters to Air 'Pro-America' Patriotic Content 3 src
Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission
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2026-02-20Trump Demands Netflix Remove Susan Rice from Board During Merger Review 3 src
Donald Trump · Netflix
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2026-02-19FCC Chair Confirms Investigation of ABC Over Equal-Time Violations on The View 3 src
Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission
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2026-02-14Trump Threatens Executive Order on Voter ID Despite Prior Court Defeats 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Chuck Schumer
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2026-02-13ACLU Files Amended Tincher v. Noem Complaint with 80+ Declarations of ICE First Amendment Retaliation 2 src
American Civil Liberties Union · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2026-01-30DOJ Arrests Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Over Church Protest Coverage 3 src
Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Justice
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2026-01-29Dhillon Refocuses Civil Rights Division on Voter Fraud as 70% of Staff Exit 3 src
Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division
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2026-01-29Federal Grand Jury Indicts Nine Cities Church Protesters Under 18 U.S.C. § 241 and FACE Act; Superseding Indictment Expands to 39 Defendants 8 src
Pam Bondi · U.S. Department of Justice
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2026-01-26Bondi Requests Minnesota Voter Rolls Including Public Assistance Data for ICE Enforcement 2 src
Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Minnesota · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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2026-01-18Anti-ICE Protesters Disrupt St. Paul Church Service, Triggering Federal Crackdown on Journalists 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem
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2026-01-14FBI Raids Washington Post Reporter's Home, Seizes Devices in Unprecedented Press Freedom Violation 3 src
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Washington Post · Hannah Natanson · Pam Bondi · +1
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2025-12-31US Press Freedom Tracker Documents 170 Assaults on Journalists in 2025, 160 by Law Enforcement 6 src
Freedom of the Press Foundation · Federal Law Enforcement · ICE · Department of Homeland Security
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2025-12-21Bannon Declares Conservative Movement Civil War at AmericaFest, Attacks Ben Shapiro as 'Cancer' 2 src
Steve Bannon · Ben Shapiro · Turning Point USA
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2025-12-21CBS News Editor Bari Weiss Pulls 60 Minutes CECOT Prison Abuse Segment Hours Before Broadcast 5 src
Bari Weiss · CBS News · 60 Minutes · Sharyn Alfonsi · +3
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2025-12-12DOJ Expands Voter Data Seizure Campaign to 18 States, Demanding Social Security Numbers and Driver's Licenses 5 src
Department of Justice · Harmeet Dhillon · American Civil Liberties Union · League of Women Voters · +2
reported
2025-12-10Trump Intervenes in Netflix-Warner Bros Antitrust Review, Favoring Politically Connected Paramount 3 src
Donald Trump · Netflix · Warner Bros. Discovery · Paramount · +2
reported
2025-12-08Paramount Skydance Launches $108.4 Billion Hostile Takeover Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with Saudi, Qatari, and UAE Backing 5 src
David Ellison · Larry Ellison · Saudi Public Investment Fund · Qatar Investment Authority · +7
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2025-12-07ICE Data Reveals 75,000 Arrests Had No Criminal History in Quota-Driven Dragnet 5 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Stephen Miller · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem
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2025-12-07Judge Blocks DOJ from Using Evidence Seized from Comey's Attorney in Fourth Amendment Ruling 3 src
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly · James Comey · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · +3
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2025-12-06National Park Service Removes MLK Day and Juneteenth from Fee-Free Days, Adds Trump's Birthday 5 src
Donald Trump · Doug Burgum · NAACP · Angus King
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2025-12-05NPR First Amendment Lawsuit Against Trump Reaches Pivotal Court Hearing on Retaliatory Funding Cuts 5 src
NPR · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · American Civil Liberties Union · +1
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2025-12-04New York Times Sues Pentagon Over Restrictive Media Rules Requiring Publication Approval, Violating First Amendment 7 src
New York Times · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · NPR · +1
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2025-12-03DOJ Sues Six Additional States Demanding Protected Voter Registration Data 7 src
Department of Justice · Pamela Bondi · Brennan Center for Justice · Democracy Docket
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2025-12-03State Department Orders H-1B Visa Denials for Content Moderation and Fact-Checking Workers 4 src
State Department · Marco Rubio · Tech companies
reported
2025-12-03U.S. Institute of Peace Rebranded as 'Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace' After Armed Takeover 4 src
Donald Trump · State Department · Federal Judiciary
reported
2025-12-03University of Alabama Shutters Black and Female Student Magazines Under DEI Directives 7 src
Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice
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2025-12-03White House Launches 'Media Bias Portal' Denunciation System Targeting Journalists and News Outlets 4 src
Donald Trump · CBS News · Boston Globe
reported
2025-12-02FDA Cancer Drug Chief Dr. Richard Pazdur Resigns After Three Weeks Under Political Pressure 5 src
Marty Makary · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Food and Drug Administration · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +2
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2025-12-02Voice of America Bureau Closures Surrender Strategic Information Space to Russia and China 4 src
Donald Trump · Voice of America · Federal Judiciary · State Department
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2025-11-30Kristi Noem Denies Defying Court Order on National Television, Calls Judges "Activist" 4 src
Kristi Noem · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. District Judge James Boasberg · NBC News · +1
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2025-11-29White House Launches Official 'Media Offenders' Portal Targeting Press as Enemies 6 src
Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt · White House · Washington Post · +12
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2025-11-27USCIS Halts All Afghan Asylum Decisions After DC Shooting: Collective Punishment for Entire Nation 3 src
Joseph Edlow · Marco Rubio · Donald Trump
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2025-11-21Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Resignation After Trump Calls Her "Traitor" Over Epstein Files 3 src
Marjorie Taylor Greene · Donald Trump · Ro Khanna
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2025-11-18Trump Administration Reinstates 'Public Charge' Rule: Immigrant Wealth Test Returns 3 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Joseph Edlow · Stephen Miller · +1
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2025-11-17Kash Patel Assigns Elite FBI SWAT Team to Protect Girlfriend, Orders Agents to Drive Her Drunk Friend Home 5 src
Kash Patel
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2025-11-1660 Minutes Investigation: Former DOJ Officials Call Trump's Binance Pardon 'Unprecedented Corruption' 3 src
CBS News · 60 Minutes · Scott Pelley · Elizabeth Warren · +2
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2025-11-15Bondi Announces New Epstein Investigation Days Before House Vote, Creating Cover for Redactions 5 src
Pam Bondi · Jay Clayton · Donald Trump · Thomas Massie · +4
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2025-11-14Trump Orders DOJ via Truth Social to Investigate Political Opponents Over Epstein Ties 4 src
Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Bill Clinton · Larry Summers · +3
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2025-11-14Trump Publicly Turns on Marjorie Taylor Greene, Calls Her RINO Over Epstein Files Support 5 src
Donald Trump · Marjorie Taylor Greene
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2025-11-12House Democrats Release Epstein Estate Emails Documenting Trump-Victim Contact and Trafficking Knowledge 5 src
Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Donald Trump · Michael Wolff
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2025-11-12House Republicans Release 20,000+ Epstein Pages in Response to Democrat Emails, Accuse "Cherry-Picking" 3 src
U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Jeffrey Epstein · Donald Trump · +4
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2025-11-12Rep. Lauren Boebert Summoned to White House Situation Room Over Epstein Files Petition 4 src
Lauren Boebert · Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Kash Patel · +2
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2025-11-10Trump Issues Proclamation for Marine Corps 250th Anniversary Emphasizing Military Spending Increase 3 src
Donald Trump · J.D. Vance
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2025-11-09Trump Promises $2,000 'Tariff Dividend' Payments Despite Insufficient Revenue and Treasury Secretary Skepticism 3 src
Donald Trump · Scott Bessent
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2025-11-07Cornell University Agrees to Pay $60 Million and Accept Federal Oversight to Restore Research Funding 3 src
Trump Administration
reported
2025-11-07ICE Bans Prayer Outside Broadview Detention Center 6 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security)
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2025-11-07Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Full SNAP Payments to 42 Million Americans 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Ketanji Brown Jackson · U.S. Department of Agriculture · Trump Administration
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2025-11-06Trump Announces Kazakhstan Joining Abraham Accords Despite Existing Diplomatic Relations with Israel Since 1992 3 src
Donald Trump · Marco Rubio
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2025-11-05Judge Scolds Comey Prosecutors for "Indict First, Investigate Second" Approach 3 src
James Comey · Pam Bondi · Lindsey Halligan
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2025-11-05Zohran Mamdani Elected NYC Mayor: First Muslim, Youngest in Century 3 src
Andrew Cuomo · Eric Adams
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2025-11-04Pope Leo XIV Calls for ICE to Allow Clergy Access to Detained Migrants 4 src
Pope Leo XIV · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Cardinal Blase Cupich · Catholic Church · +1
reported
2025-10-30DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into Black Lives Matter Foundation for Alleged Donor Fraud 3 src
Department of Justice · Trump Administration
reported
2025-10-30Trump Officials Flee to Military Bases: Miller, Noem, Hegseth, Rubio Create Militarized "Green Zone" 3 src
Charlie Kirk · Kristi Noem · Marco Rubio · Pete Hegseth · +1
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2025-10-29DOJ Indicts Democratic Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh for ICE Facility Protest 3 src
Kat Abughazaleh · Department of Justice · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Trump Administration
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2025-10-27Elon Musk's xAI Launches Grokipedia to Challenge Wikipedia with AI-Generated Content 3 src
Elon Musk · xAI
reported
2025-10-27NPR Sues After Corporation for Public Broadcasting Cancels $36M Contract Under Trump Pressure 2 src
Donald Trump · NPR
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2025-10-27Trump Suggests Running as VP to Circumvent Constitutional Term Limits 2 src
Donald Trump · Steve Bannon
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2025-10-27Tucker Carlson Interviews Nick Fuentes, Exposing Republican Rift Over Antisemitism 3 src
Tucker Carlson · Nick Fuentes · Ben Shapiro · Ted Cruz · +2
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2025-10-23Border Patrol Commander Bovino Throws Tear Gas at Chicago Protesters, Violating Court Order 4 src
Gregory Bovino · Sara Ellis · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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2025-10-22Pentagon Replaces Mainstream Media with MAGA Propaganda Outlets in Press Corps 2 src
Pete Hegseth · Pentagon
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2025-10-22Trump Orders Demolition of Historic White House East Wing for Personal Ballroom 2 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Treasury Department · White House Staff
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2025-10-21Trump Fires Export-Import Bank Inspector General as Oversight Purge Continues 2 src
Donald Trump · Inspectors General
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2025-10-20North Carolina GOP Advances Mid-Decade Redistricting to Eliminate Black Representative 2 src confirmed
2025-10-19Federal Prosecutor Elizabeth Yusi Fired After Refusing to Charge NY AG Letitia James 3 src
Elizabeth Yusi · Letitia James · Trump · Department of Justice
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2025-10-18Federal Prosecutor Fired for Refusing Trump Demand to Indict Letitia James 2 src
Elizabeth Yusi · Donald Trump · Letitia James · Lindsey Halligan · +1
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2025-10-17Two Federal Prosecutors Fired After Refusing to Bring Charges Against Letitia James 4 src
Elizabeth Yusi · Erik Siebert · Letitia James · Donald Trump · +4
reported
2025-10-13Trump Accelerates Authoritarian Agenda With Mass Purges and Political Prosecutions 2 src
Donald Trump · New York Attorney General · Federal Workforce
reported
2025-10-09DOJ Indicts New York AG Letitia James on Bank Fraud Charges After Trump Pressure Campaign 3 src
Letitia James · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · +2
reported
2025-10-09Treasury's $20 Billion Argentina Bailout Benefits Bessent's Hedge Fund Colleagues 2 src
Scott Bessent · Elizabeth Warren · Javier Milei
reported
2025-10-04Two Senior Virginia Prosecutors Purged After Resisting Political Prosecutions 3 src
Lindsey Halligan · James Comey · Letitia James
reported
2025-10-01DOJ Fires Top National Security Prosecutor Michael Ben'Ary Based on False Social Media Post 3 src
Department of Justice · U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of Virginia · Trump Administration
reported
2025-10-01Pope Leo XIV: Inhuman Treatment of Immigrants 'Not Pro-Life' 3 src
Pope Leo XIV · Trump Administration · White House · Dick Durbin · +1
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2025-09-26FBI Director Patel Fires 15-20 Agents Photographed Kneeling at 2020 George Floyd Protests 2 src
Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Christopher Wray
reported
2025-09-26Gabbard Terminates Global Trends Intelligence Report and Unit Over Climate Change Analysis 2 src
Tulsi Gabbard
reported
2025-09-25DOJ Orders Federal Prosecutors to Investigate George Soros' Open Society Foundations for Alleged Terrorism Ties 3 src
Department of Justice · George Soros · Todd Blanche · Donald Trump · +1
reported
2025-09-25DOJ Sues Six States to Seize Voter Data Including Social Security Numbers and Driver's Licenses 2 src
Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · California · Minnesota
reported
2025-09-25Federal Grand Jury Indicts Former FBI Director James Comey for Disclosure of Sensitive Information 2 src
James Comey · Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Trump Administration
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2025-09-20Eastern District of Virginia US Attorney Erik Siebert Resigns Under Trump Pressure to Charge Letitia James 2 src
Erik Siebert · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Letitia James · +1
reported
2025-09-17FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens ABC License Revocation, Disney Suspends Kimmel 'Indefinitely' 2 src
Brendan Carr · Disney · Federal Communications Commission · Donald Trump
reported
2025-09-11Deputy Secretary Landau Announces Visa Sanctions for Foreign Comments on Charlie Kirk Death 3 src
State Department · Charlie Kirk
reported
2025-09-11Kennedy Center Fires Jazz Director in Continued Cultural Institution Purge 2 src
Richard Grenell
reported
2025-09-10Trump Threatens to Sue New York Times Over Reporting on Epstein Drawing Signed by Him 2 src
Donald Trump · New York Times · James Comer · Jeffrey Epstein
reported
2025-09-09Director of National Intelligence Gabbard Orders NSA Report Retraction to Shield Trump Officials 2 src
Tulsi Gabbard · Richard Grenell · National Security Agency · Marco Rubio
reported
2025-09-09DOJ Demands Detailed Voter Roll Data From 30+ States to Build Centralized National Database 3 src
Department of Justice · Donald Trump
confirmed
2025-09-09Foreign Governments Fund MAGA Influencers for Propaganda Without Proper Disclosure 2 src
Israel · South Korea
reported
2025-09-09Ninth Circuit Upholds California Social Media Protection Law for Minors 3 src
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · California · Rob Bonta
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2025-09-08CBS Appoints Trump Ally Kenneth Weinstein as Network Ombudsman Following Merger Pressure 3 src
Donald Trump · CBS News · Paramount
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2025-09-08FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Threatens to Revoke Broadcast Licenses Over News Coverage 3 src
Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Donald Trump · NBC
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2025-09-08Missouri GOP Passes Mid-Decade Gerrymander to Eliminate Democratic Congressional Seat 3 src
Trump Administration
reported