| 2016-01-01 | Cambridge Analytica Deploys Harvested Facebook Data for Trump Campaign Electoral Manipulation
6 src Cambridge Analytica · Trump Campaign · Alexander Nix · Steve Bannon · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-01 | YouTube Algorithm Optimizes for Watch Time, Systematically Amplifies Extremism
4 src YouTube · Google |
| confirmed |
| 2015-12-01 | Guardian Exposes Cambridge Analytica's Unauthorized Facebook Data Use for Ted Cruz Campaign
3 src The Guardian · Cambridge Analytica · Ted Cruz · Facebook · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-27 | Bannon Launches Breitbart Tech with Milo Yiannopoulos to Capture Gamergate Army: "Rootless White Males"
3 src Steve Bannon · Milo Yiannopoulos · Robert Mercer |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-16 | Flint Switches Back to Detroit Water After 18 Months—But Damage to Children Is Permanent
3 src Rick Snyder · Flint City Government |
| confirmed |
| 2015-10-02 | Michigan Finally Confirms Lead Problem and Advises Filters—18 Months After Poisoning Began
3 src Rick Snyder |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-24 | Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha Reveals Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Flint Children
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-21 | Daily Wire launches; multiple outlets report seed funding from Farris Wilks
3 src Ben Shapiro | | reported |
| 2015-09-16 | InsideClimate News Launches
4 src ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 2015-06-16 | Trump Descends Escalator with "Rapists" Speech: Breitbart Pivots to Full Campaign Organ
2 src Donald Trump · Steve Bannon |
| confirmed |
| 2015-06-10 | Reddit Bans r/FatPeopleHate and Hate Subreddits: Deplatforming Pushes Users to Voat and 8chan, Accelerating Radicalization
2 src |
| confirmed |
| 2015-03-09 | Wisconsin Becomes 25th Right-to-Work State, Completing ALEC's Union Destruction
3 src Scott Walker · American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 2015-02-26 | FCC Votes 3-2 for Strong Net Neutrality Protections Through Title II Reclassification After Record Public Engagement
3 src Tom Wheeler · Federal Communications Commission · Ajit Pai · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2015-02-18 | LeeAnne Walters' Water Tests Show Lead at 104 ppb—Nearly 7 Times EPA Limit
3 src Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
| confirmed |
| 2015-01-01 | ABC News kills Amy Robach interview with Virginia Giuffre about Epstein network
3 src Virginia Giuffre · ABC News · Prince Andrew · Jeffrey Epstein |
| confirmed |
| 2015-01-01 | Eastern District of Texas Patent Troll Haven: Judge Rodney Gilstrap Handles 25% of All U.S. Patent Cases, Forum Shopping Peak
5 src John Roberts |
| confirmed |
| 2014-11-28 | Amazon Workers in Germany Strike During Black Friday for Union Recognition
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon |
| confirmed |
| 2014-08-16 | Gamergate Begins: 4chan Harassment Campaign Becomes Political Mobilization Blueprint
3 src Steve Bannon · Milo Yiannopoulos |
| confirmed |
| 2014-06-28 | Facebook Emotional Contagion Experiment Revealed
4 src Facebook |
| confirmed |
| 2014-06-01 | SCL Elections Contracts with Kogan to Launch Cambridge Analytica Data Operation
5 src Aleksandr Kogan · Cambridge Analytica · Alexander Nix |
| confirmed |
| 2013-09-30 | Darnell Earley Appointed as Flint Emergency Manager, Will Oversee Disastrous Water Switch
3 src Darnell Earley · Rick Snyder |
| confirmed |
| 2013-09-17 | Brazil's President Cancels US State Visit Over NSA Spying on Dilma Rousseff
4 src Barack Obama · National Security Agency · Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-24 | New York Attorney General Sues Trump University for $40 Million, Calls It "Straight Up Fraud"
3 src Eric Schneiderman · Donald Trump · Michael Sexton |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-05 | Jeff Bezos Purchases Washington Post for $250 Million
3 src Jeff Bezos |
| confirmed |
| 2013-08-01 | Retired General James Mattis Joins General Dynamics Board Five Months After Marine Corps Retirement
3 src James Mattis · General Dynamics |
| confirmed |
| 2013-07-01 | North Carolina Passes "Monster" Voter Suppression Law Hours After Shelby County Decision
4 src North Carolina General Assembly · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-23 | Snowden Flees Hong Kong for Moscow Seeking Asylum Amid U.S. Diplomatic Pressure
3 src Edward Snowden · WikiLeaks · State Department |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-21 | Obama Prosecutes 8 Whistleblowers Under Espionage Act, More Than All Presidents
3 src Barack Obama · Eric Holder · Edward Snowden · Chelsea Manning · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-09 | Edward Snowden Reveals Identity as NSA Whistleblower in Hong Kong Video
3 src Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-05 | Guardian Publishes First Snowden Leak on NSA Verizon Phone Records Collection
3 src Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · National Security Agency · Verizon |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-01 | Justice O'Connor Expresses Regret Over Bush v. Gore Damage to Court Reputation
4 src Sandra Day O'Connor · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2013-05-02 | Obama Nominates Telecom Industry Lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC Chairman
4 src Tom Wheeler · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-14 | Jeffrey Sterling Indicted Under Espionage Act for Alleged Leak to James Risen
3 src James Risen · Central Intelligence Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-01 | Four Firms Control 85%+ of Multiple U.S. Industries, Documenting Oligopolistic Market Structure
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-01 | Kansas Implements Kris Kobach's Proof-of-Citizenship Voting Law and Expands Interstate Crosscheck
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2013-01-01 | Lance Wallnau Popularizes "Seven Mountains Mandate": The Theology of Institutional Capture Goes Mainstream
3 src Lance Wallnau · C. Peter Wagner |
| confirmed |
| 2012-12-11 | Michigan Passes Right-to-Work in Lame Duck Surprise Using Verbatim ALEC Language
3 src Rick Snyder · American Legislative Exchange Council · Mackinac Center · Koch brothers |
| confirmed |
| 2012-11-06 | North Carolina Democrats Win Popular Vote But Lose 9 of 13 Congressional Seats
4 src Democratic Party · Republican Party · North Carolina General Assembly |
| confirmed |
| 2012-10-01 | Reddit's "Manosphere" Reaches Critical Mass: r/TheRedPill and r/MensRights Become Gateway to White Nationalist Radicalization
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2012-05-04 | Heartland Institute Billboard Compares Climate Scientists to Unabomber
4 src Heartland Institute · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 2012-04-13 | Major Corporate Exodus from ALEC: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft, McDonald's, Wendy's, Mars, and Intuit Drop Membership After Public Pressure Campaign
3 src Color of Change · American Legislative Exchange Council · Center for Media and Democracy · Common Cause |
| confirmed |
| 2012-02-01 | Indiana Becomes 23rd Right-to-Work State Using ALEC Model Legislation
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · National Right to Work Committee · Koch brothers |
| confirmed |
| 2012-01-01 | Patent Trolls Dominate U.S. Patent Litigation: 61% of All Cases, Systematic Small Business Extraction
3 src U.S. Government Accountability Office |
| confirmed |
| 2011-09-01 | FBI Surveils Occupy Wall Street as "Terrorist Threat" Before First Protest
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 2011-08-06 | Rick Perry's "The Response" Prayer Rally: 30,000 at Reliant Stadium as NAR Leaders Launch a Presidential Campaign
3 src C. Peter Wagner |
| confirmed |
| 2011-03-23 | Trump Launches Political Career with Racist Birther Conspiracy
3 src Donald Trump · Barack Obama |
| confirmed |
| 2011-03-11 | Wisconsin Act 10 Crushes Public Sector Unions Using ALEC Model Legislation
3 src Scott Walker · American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch brothers · Americans for Prosperity · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Geofeedia Founded to Enable Location-Based Social Media Surveillance
3 src In-Q-Tel |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | Patent Troll Explosion: Non-Practicing Entities Impose $29 Billion Annual Cost on U.S. Economy, Targeting Small Businesses
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2010-12-03 | ALEC Coordinates Right-to-Work Push After 2010 GOP Midterm Wave
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Koch brothers · Americans for Prosperity · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 2010-11-02 | Republicans Gain Record 680 State Legislative Seats, Securing REDMAP Objectives
4 src Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 2010-09-24 | FBI Raids Anti-War Activists' Homes in Coordinated Nationwide Operation
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2010-08-13 | Oracle Sues Google for Copyright Infringement Over Java APIs in Android
3 src Oracle · Google · Larry Ellison |
| confirmed |
| 2010-06-18 | Vice President Biden Credits Palantir Software for Detecting Stimulus Fraud
3 src Joe Biden · Palantir Technologies |
| confirmed |
| 2010-06-01 | Trump University Changes Name to "Trump Entrepreneur Initiative" Under Pressure from NY Education Department
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Sexton |
| confirmed |
| 2010-05-27 | Chelsea Manning Arrested for Leaking Classified Documents to WikiLeaks
3 src Chelsea Manning · WikiLeaks · U.S. Army · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 2010-05-01 | Better Business Bureau Drops Trump University Rating to D- After Flood of Consumer Complaints
3 src Donald Trump · Michael Sexton |
| confirmed |
| 2010-04-08 | Thomas Drake Indicted Under Espionage Act for NSA Whistleblowing
3 src Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-27 | Oracle Completes Sun Microsystems Acquisition for $7.4 Billion, Gains Java and MySQL
3 src Oracle · Larry Ellison · European Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | Gig Economy Emerges Using Worker Misclassification to Avoid Labor Protections and Unions
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-01 | NSO Group Founded in Israel to Develop Pegasus Spyware
3 src Shalev Hulio · Omri Lavie · NSO Group |
| confirmed |
| 2009-11-17 | Climategate Email Hack Manufactures Controversy Before Copenhagen Summit
4 src Michael Mann |
| confirmed |
| 2009-09-01 | James O'Keefe's Deceptively Edited ACORN Videos Trigger Destruction of Voter Registration Organization
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2009-07-01 | In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures Co-Invest in Social Media Surveillance Firm Recorded Future
3 src In-Q-Tel |
| confirmed |
| 2009-05-01 | Russian Digital Sky Technologies Invests $200M in Facebook
3 src Mark Zuckerberg |
| confirmed |
| 2009-04-15 | Tax Day Tea Party Protests Organized by Koch Network Groups
3 src Americans for Prosperity · FreedomWorks · David Koch · Charles Koch · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-19 | Koch Network Prepares Tea Party Mobilization After Santelli Rant
4 src David Koch · Charles Koch · Americans for Prosperity · FreedomWorks |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-19 | Rick Santelli CNBC Rant Triggers Immediate Koch Network Tea Party Response
3 src David Koch · Charles Koch · Americans for Prosperity · FreedomWorks · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-13 | Blackwater Rebrands as Xe Services to Distance from Nisour Square Massacre and Iraq War Crimes
3 src Erik Prince · Blackwater |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | CNP Member Ralph Reed Founds Faith and Freedom Coalition - Religious Right Coordination Expands
2 src Ralph Reed · Council for National Policy |
| confirmed |
| 2009-01-01 | Dataminr Founded to Provide Real-Time Social Media Surveillance, Later Backed by CIA Venture Capital
3 src In-Q-Tel · Twitter |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-01 | Sarah Palin's NAR Pastors Exposed: New Apostolic Reformation Theology Enters National Electoral Politics
3 src C. Peter Wagner |
| confirmed |
| 2008-08-01 | FCC Orders Comcast to Stop Throttling BitTorrent Traffic in Historic 3-2 Vote on Net Neutrality
3 src Federal Communications Commission · Comcast Corporation · Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2008-07-24 | Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners Complete $26.7 Billion Clear Channel Leveraged Buyout - Creating Debt Crisis
4 src Bain Capital · Clear Channel Communications · Mitt Romney · Lowry Mays |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-15 | Project Chanology: Anonymous Mobilizes Against Scientology, Proving Chan Culture Can Produce Real-World Action
3 src Anonymous |
| confirmed |
| 2008-01-01 | Hans von Spakovsky Joins Heritage Foundation to Lead Voter Suppression Infrastructure Development
4 src Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Council for National Policy · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2007-10-19 | Associated Press Investigation Exposes Comcast's Secret BitTorrent Throttling and Blocking
3 src Comcast Corporation · Associated Press · Electronic Frontier Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2007-04-01 | FISA Court Judge Rejects NSA Warrantless Surveillance Expansion
3 src FISA Court · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2007-03-09 | DOJ Inspector General Documents Systematic FBI Surveillance Abuse
3 src Glenn Fine · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2007-03-01 | Stephen Miller and Richard Spencer Organize White Nationalist Speaker at Duke University
3 src Stephen Miller |
| confirmed |
| 2007-01-01 | ALEC Launches 'Rich States, Poor States' Report with Arthur Laffer - Annual Corporate Tax Competition Manifesto to Drive Interstate Race-to-Bottom
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Arthur Laffer · Stephen Moore · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 2006-12-07 | Bush Administration Fires 9 U.S. Attorneys for Political Reasons
3 src Alberto Gonzales · Karl Rove · George W. Bush · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2006-05-18 | Competitive Enterprise Institute Launches "CO2 is Life" Advertising Campaign
4 src Competitive Enterprise Institute · ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 2006-03-09 | Dubai Ports World Abandons US Port Takeover Under Congressional Pressure
4 src Dubai Ports World · Dennis Hastert · George W. Bush · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 2006-03-01 | FBI Infiltrates Orange County Mosques with Informant in Dragnet Surveillance
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 2006-01-01 | Ares Management Acquires Aspen Dental: Private Equity Dental Roll-Up Strategy Launches Industry Consolidation
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2005-12-16 | New York Times Exposes NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program
5 src James Risen · New York Times · George W. Bush · National Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2005-12-15 | NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice Reports Illegal Domestic Surveillance
3 src National Security Agency · Senate Intelligence Committee · James Risen · New York Times · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-08-25 | Hans von Spakovsky Overrules DOJ Career Staff to Approve Georgia Voter ID Law Targeting Black Voters
3 src Hans von Spakovsky · Georgia Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 2005-08-08 | Energy Task Force Recommendations Become EPA Policy Without Review
3 src Dick Cheney · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · ExxonMobil · Chevron · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2005-06-08 | Phil Cooney Climate Science Censorship Exposed by Whistleblower
3 src ExxonMobil · American Petroleum Institute |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-07 | Armstrong Williams Paid 40K for Illegal Government Propaganda
3 src U.S. Department of Education |
| confirmed |
| 2005-01-03 | Dick Gephardt Founds Lobbying Firm After 28 Years as House Democratic Leader
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 2004-11-18 | FDA Whistleblower David Graham Testifies on Vioxx Cover-up Before Senate
4 src Food and Drug Administration · Merck · U.S. Senate Finance Committee |
| confirmed |
| 2004-06-28 | WHIG-Enabled Torture Authorization Establishes Executive Immunity Precedent for Constitutional Crisis Governance
3 src John Yoo · Jay Bybee · Alberto Gonzales · White House Iraq Group · +5 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-06-04 | Stewart v. Blackwell Applies Bush v. Gore Equal Protection Precedent to Ohio Voting Disparities
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2004-05-10 | Canada Concludes Maher Arar Wrongly Rendered to Syria for Torture Based on False Intelligence
4 src Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 2004-03-10 | Hospital Confrontation Over NSA Surveillance Program
6 src John Ashcroft · James Comey · Alberto Gonzales · Robert Mueller |
| confirmed |
| 2004-02-22 | Washington Post Exposes Abramoff Native American Lobbying Scandal
3 src Washington Post · Jack Abramoff · Michael Scanlon · Native American Tribes |
| confirmed |
| 2004-01-05 | Scott Bloch Dismisses 1,000+ Whistleblower Cases at OSC
3 src Office of Special Counsel · U.S. Congress · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |