Media Capture and Control
The Media Capture and Control capture lane traces 629 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-03 | Military Jets Drown Out Epstein Survivors Press Conference at Capitol
3 src 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
3 src Department of Justice · Trump · Federal Prosecutors | reported | |
| 2025-08-19 | Nexstar-Tegna $6.2 Billion Merger Creates Media Giant Reaching 80% of US Households
3 src Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-18 | Trump Pledges Executive Order to Ban Mail-In Voting After Putin Meeting
3 src Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-08 | EPA Terminates Union Contracts Following Appellate Stays
3 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Paramount-Skydance Merger Completes After FCC Approval
4 src Paramount Global · Skydance Media · David Ellison · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Skydance-Paramount deal closes with contentious FCC regulatory conditions
4 src Paramount Global · Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | Federal Judge Strikes Down Key Parts of California's Deepfake Laws
4 src X · Twitter · California | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-04 | Ex-DOGE worker Coristine attacked, Trump threatens federal DC takeover
3 src Edward Coristine · Donald Trump · DC Metropolitan Police · National Guard | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Federal Reserve Governor Adriana Kugler Resigns Early, Opening Seat for Trump Appointee
3 src Federal Reserve · Donald Trump · Jerome Powell | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Smithsonian Removes Trump Impeachment References from National Museum of American History
3 src White House · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-24 | FCC Approves Skydance's Acquisition of Paramount/CBS
4 src Federal Communications Commission · Skydance Media · Paramount Global | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | House Speaker Johnson Shuts Down Congress Early to Block Epstein Files Vote
3 src Mike Johnson · Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna · U.S. House of Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-21 | Trump Media buys $2 billion in bitcoin for crypto Treasury plan
6 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-11 | Federal court restrains LAPD use of less-lethal force against journalists
3 src U.S. District Court · LAPD · Journalists | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-08 | Musk Floods X with 35+ Posts Attacking Trump Over Epstein "Cover-up"
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · X · Twitter · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-07 | Ghana Launches Democracy Capture Index Revealing Widespread Institutional Capture in Africa 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-02 | Paramount Pays $16M to Settle Trump's 60 Minutes Lawsuit
3 src Donald Trump · Kamala Harris · Paramount Global · CBS News | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-24 | Bernie Sanders Returns to Joe Rogan, Warns of Trump Authoritarianism and Media Intimidation - Contributes to Rogan's Subsequent Trump Criticism
2 src Bernie Sanders · Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-16 | Trump Media seeks SEC approval for bitcoin and ethereum ETF
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Crypto.com | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-15 | Federal Judicial System Faces Unprecedented Integrity Challenge
3 src Supreme Court Justices · Cory Booker · Department of Justice · Executive Branch | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-12 | Senator Alex Padilla Forcibly Removed and Handcuffed by FBI
3 src U.S. Secret Service | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-09 | CPJ: Law enforcement injure multiple journalists covering Los Angeles protests
4 src Committee to Protect Journalists · LAPD · Federal Law Enforcement · National Guard | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-06 | DC Circuit Rules 2-1 That Trump Can Bar AP from White House Events
5 src Associated Press · White House · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-06 | Labor Leader David Huerta Arrested During Federal Operation
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · SEIU · Federal Law Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-05 | Musk Posts "Trump is in the Epstein Files" - 10 Million Views Before Deletion
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-03 | Trump's Truth Social Takes Step Toward Launching Bitcoin ETF with NYSE Arca Filing
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-01 | Palantir builds $30M AI surveillance system linking IRS, Social Security, and immigration data for ICE
3 src Palantir Technologies · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Peter Thiel · Ron Wyden | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | Paramount Settles Trump's $20 Billion '60 Minutes' Lawsuit for $16 Million
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paramount Global · CBS News · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-28 | Paramount settles Trump '60 Minutes' lawsuit for $16 million
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-27 | Donald Trump’s media conglomerate is becoming a bitcoin reserve
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-27 | Trump questioned whether U.S. gold is missing. His allies are trying to cash in
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Scott Bessent | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-22 | FTC probes Media Matters over Musk's X boycott claims, document shows
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | Chief Magistrate Judge Gregory B. Wormuth (D.N.M.) Begins Dismissing Federal Military-Trespass Charges at Probable-Cause Stage; 98-Case Mass Dismissal on May 15 Exposes Knowledge-Standard Flaw in NDA Architecture
7 src Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-14 | U.S. AG Pam Bondi Sells Over $1 Million in Trump Media Shares Amid Tariff Announcement
3 src Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-10 | V-Dem Institute warns U.S. approaching "Electoral Autocracy" threshold
3 src V-Dem Institute · United States | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-09 | Large investors increased stake in Trump Media by hundreds of millions
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-04 | Trump says he'll call CEOs when he disagrees with their business decisions
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Rapid Response Litigation Protocol Developed
3 src Constitutional Defense Network · Lawyers for Good Government · Democracy Forward | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Trump Media Finalizes Crypto ETF Deal with Crypto.com and Yorkville Digital
4 src Donald Trump · Devin Nunes · Trump Media & Technology Group · Crypto.com | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-21 | Kremlin Explored Moscow Skyscraper Offer to Trump as Diplomatic Leverage
4 src Donald Trump · Vladimir Putin · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-16 | Under Trump, consumer watchdog to slash industry supervision
5 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Russell Vought · National Treasury Employees Union · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-15 | Press Freedom Tracker: White House wrests control of press pool structure
3 src White House · White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) · Associated Press · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-15 | White House restructures press pool, removes permanent wire position
3 src White House · White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-14 | Wolff Reports Trump Team's Media Leverage Attempt with Warner Bros. Discovery
3 src Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Michael Wolff | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Meta adds former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick to its board
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Mark Zuckerberg | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | Trump Signs NSPM-4 Transferring Roosevelt Reservation to DoD as First 'National Defense Area' at Southern Border; 170-Mile NM Strip Becomes Military Installation Without Congressional Approval
6 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Army · Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | Trump offers ‘buy’ tip on social media hours before tariff pause that made stocks soar
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-09 | USCIS to screen immigrants' social media for antisemitic activity
4 src U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-08 | Judge orders restoration of AP access to White House events
3 src U.S. District Court · Associated Press · White House · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-08 | Justice Department Disbands National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team
3 src Donald Trump · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-03 | FCC Chair Carr Proposes Section 230 Reinterpretation at DOJ "Big-Tech Censorship" Forum
6 src Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Shares in Trump social media company sink following concerns about insider selloff
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Zuckerberg tries to enlist trump in fight against Meta EU ruling
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-28 | Trump gets $100M deal with Skadden law firm amid pressure campaign
3 src Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-24 | Trump Media shares jump on announcement of ETF deal with Crypto.com
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Trump administration coerces law firms into $940 million of free legal work
5 src Trump Administration · Paul Weiss · Kirkland & Ellis · Latham & Watkins · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Trump Administration Used Diplomatic Pressure to Advance Starlink in Gambia
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Marco Rubio | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-14 | Trump Signs Proclamation 10903 Invoking 1798 Alien Enemies Act Against Tren de Aragua, First Use Outside Declared War Since World War II Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Marco Rubio · James Boasberg · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-10 | Amazon pays $40 million for Melania documentary in apparent quid pro quo arrangement
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Melania Trump · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-09 | CIVICUS reports U.S. civic freedoms in decline, democracy at risk
4 src United States | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-05 | Musk's America PAC launches $1 million TV ad buy touting Trump's first 6 weeks in office
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · America PAC | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Investigation Finds 58% of Accounts Supporting Far-Right Portuguese Parties Were Fake 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-26 | White House Seizes Control of Press Pool, Removes Reuters and Bloomberg Alongside AP
5 src White House · Associated Press · Reuters · Bloomberg News · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | X Threatens Interpublic Group with Potential Government Interference Over Ad Spending
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Administration Terminates Critical Privacy Officials at OPM, Blocking Public Information Access
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | White House Posts "ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight" Video Packaging State Violence as Entertainment
3 src White House · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | DOJ Kleptocracy Initiative Shuttered: Major Setback for Anti-Corruption Enforcement
3 src Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Transparency International | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | How the Trumps Turned Social Media Platform Litigation into a Profitable Strategy
3 src Donald Trump · Google · YouTube · Elon Musk · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-12 | State Department Plans $400 Million Purchase of Tesla Cybertrucks
4 src State Department · Tesla · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Associated Press barred from White House events; later restored by court
4 src Associated Press · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-07 | Trump Media Offers $800,000 Stock Award to Kash Patel Before FBI Director Confirmation
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kash Patel · Donald Trump Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Trump Administration Shuts Down KleptoCapture Task Force
4 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Merrick Garland · Russian Oligarchs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump Signs Executive Order Restoring 'Maximum Pressure' Campaign Against Iran
2 src Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · U.S. Treasury Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-02 | Trump 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 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Amazon Raises Ad Spending on Elon Musk's X Platform
3 src Jeff Bezos · Elon Musk · Andy Jassy · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | CBP Journalist Watchlist and Border Surveillance Program Documented
3 src U.S. Customs and Border Protection · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Committee to Protect Journalists · Electronic Frontier Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Paramount in settlement talks with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Meta agrees to pay $25 million to settle Trump lawsuit over suspended accounts
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Zuckerberg | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-29 | Trump Media Launches Truth.Fi FinTech Brand with $250M Investment Strategy
3 src Donald Trump · Devin Nunes · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Brendan Carr chairs FCC after writing Project 2025 FCC chapter
4 src Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Trump Administration · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | DOJ Expands Surveillance of Journalists Covering Administration
3 src U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Journalists | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Pam Bondi Rescinds Journalist Protection Safeguards as AG
3 src Pam Bondi · U.S. Department of Justice · Merrick Garland | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-19 | Melania Trump launches $MELANIA coin with suspicious trading netting insiders $99.6M
4 src Melania Trump · World Liberty Financial · Chris Murphy | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Patrizia Cavazzoni's FDA to Pfizer Move Epitomizes Regulatory Capture
3 src Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-07 | Donald Trump Jr. Makes Unofficial Visit to Greenland, Distributes MAGA Hats
2 src Donald Trump Jr. · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-07 | Meta Eliminates Fact-Checking Program Citing "Political Bias" After Trump Pressure
6 src Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-03 | South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol Declares Martial Law, Triggering Democratic Crisis
3 src Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-03 | South Korean Democratic Resistance Against Presidential Martial Law 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-24 | Vitali Klitschko Confronts Joe Rogan for Promoting Russian Propaganda on Ukraine, Rogan Defends Kremlin Narratives
3 src Joe Rogan · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · RT (Russia Today) | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-14 | Milo Yiannopoulos Launches Tarantula Management Firm Offering Trump Administration Access
2 src Milo Yiannopoulos · Marjorie Taylor Greene | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-04 | Joe Rogan Endorses Trump on Election Eve, Marking Major Podcast Influence on Political Discourse
4 src Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Kamala Harris · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-25 | Joe Rogan Gives Trump Unchallenged 3-Hour Platform 11 Days Before Election, Interview Reaches 50M+ Views and Cited as 'Deciding Factor' by Voters
4 src Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · J.D. Vance | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-01 | Musk Coordinates Political Operations Through America PAC and X Platform Information Warfare
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · America PAC · Twitter | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-09 | Vance Spreads Debunked Anti-Haitian Immigrant Hoax in Springfield, Ohio
3 src J.D. Vance | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-15 | Grok AI Implements Enhanced Safety Protocols After Regulatory Pressure
5 src Elon Musk · xAI | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-23 | House Oversight Releases Damning PBM Report After 32-Month Investigation: Anticompetitive Policies Exposed
2 src U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Express Scripts · CVS Caremark · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-20 | Vance White Nationalist Social Media Connections Exposed
3 src J.D. Vance · Laura Loomer | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-17 | SEC Files Securities Fraud Lawsuit Against Former DWAC CEO Patrick Orlando
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Patrick Orlando · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-16 | xAI Faces Major Criticism Over Grok AI Safety Failures
3 src Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak | confirmed |