Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|
| 2026-10-14 | X Says It Suspended More Than 13,000 Accounts in Three Suspected Iran-, Russia- and China-Linked Influence Operations Ahead of the Midterms
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-06 | TikTok USDS Joint Venture Publishes Its Midterm Election Plan, With an Election Mission Control Center and a Ban on Paid Political Ads
3 src Oracle · ByteDance |
| reported |
| 2026-01-23 | TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC Established: Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX Hold 15% Each, ByteDance Keeps 19.9%, and the Venture Takes Content-Moderation Authority
1 src Oracle · MGX · ByteDance | | reported |
| 2025-12-03 | State Department Orders H-1B Visa Denials for Content Moderation and Fact-Checking Workers
4 src State Department · Marco Rubio · Tech companies |
| reported |
| 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 |
| 2025-01-25 | Brendan Carr chairs FCC after writing Project 2025 FCC chapter
4 src Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Trump Administration · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2025-01-07 | Meta Eliminates Fact-Checking Program Citing "Political Bias" After Trump Pressure
6 src Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2024-07-15 | xAI Implements Comprehensive AI Safety Protocols in Response to Investigations
4 src Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak |
| confirmed |
| 2024-06-26 | SCOTUS: Plaintiffs lack standing in social-media coercion case (Murthy v. Missouri)
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Amy Coney Barrett · Samuel Alito · Clarence Thomas · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2024-02-09 | Meta silent-default political-content suppression: Instagram and Threads toggle defaults OFF without user notification, affects full 2024 election cycle
4 src Meta · Instagram |
| confirmed |
| 2023-07-23 | Twitter Transformed to X with Systematic Content Moderation Rollback and Political Weaponization
3 src Elon Musk · Twitter · X |
| confirmed |
| 2023-06-02 | YouTube stops removing false claims about past U.S. elections
4 src YouTube · Google |
| confirmed |
| 2021-01-07 | Facebook Bans Trump Only After He Loses Power, Following January 6 Insurrection It Enabled
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook |
| confirmed |
| 2020-10-15 | YouTube Bans QAnon Content Only After Years of Algorithmic Amplification
4 src YouTube · Google · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 2020-06-01 | Facebook Employees Stage Virtual Walkout After Zuckerberg Refuses to Remove Trump Incitement to Violence
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook |
| confirmed |
| 2019-10-01 | Zuckerberg Holds Secret White House Dinners with Trump, Kushner, and Thiel to Negotiate Content Moderation
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Jared Kushner · Peter Thiel · +2 |
| confirmed |