| 2026-10-21 | FCC Chair Carr Warns Licensed Broadcasters That Airing "Fake Polls" Could Violate News-Distortion and Hoax Rules, Without Naming Any Poll
1 src Brendan Carr · Anna Gomez · Federal Communications Commission | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-17 | CBS News Schedules Primetime Town Hall With Vice President Vance in Michigan
5 src JD Vance · CBS News · Bari Weiss | | reported |
| 2026-10-14 | Supreme Court Stays Fourth Circuit Order Giving FCC 48 Hours to Decide Candidates' Ad-Rate Challenge
2 src Federal Communications Commission · Sherrod Brown · National Republican Congressional Committee · Sonia Sotomayor · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-06 | Paramount Skydance Closes Warner Bros. Discovery Acquisition, Renamed Skydance: CBS News and CNN Under One Owner (Supersedes June-2027 Pause)
4 src David Ellison · Skydance · Warner Bros. Discovery | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-05 | Skydance Board Appoints Laurene Powell Jobs and Robert Kotick Effective at the Warner Bros. Discovery Close; That Board Appoints the Consent Decree’s Editorial Independence Board
2 src David Ellison | | reported |
| 2026-09-30 | Judge Martínez-Olguín Enters Paramount-WBD Consent Decree: Appointee-Run News Editorial Independence Board, Colorado and Washington Decline Section III.D
4 src Araceli Martínez-Olguín · Rob Bonta · David Ellison | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-23 | Iowa Court Dismisses With Prejudice Trump's Suit Over the Selzer/Des Moines Register Poll, Holding the Poll Is Fully Protected Political Speech
2 src Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-18 | Judge Lamberth Orders USAGM to Produce the Authority Behind Its Current Operations and Brief Whether the VOA Vacatur Is Moot; Agency Answers in Court Filing With Its FY2026 Program Plan
2 src Voice of America | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-09 | Jimmy Kimmel Live Does Not Broadcast Talarico Interview and Moves It to YouTube; Kimmel Says the FCC Has Threatened His Show
2 src James Talarico · ABC · The Walt Disney Company · Federal Communications Commission · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-04 | Supreme Court Grants Stay of Fourth Circuit Ruling That Set Aside FCC Party Ad-Rate Notice, Citing Likely No Jurisdiction
2 src Federal Communications Commission · Sherrod Brown · National Republican Congressional Committee · National Republican Senatorial Committee · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-18 | ABC and Disney Sue FCC for First Amendment Retaliation Over Early License Renewals; Complaint Says No Candidate Has Appeared on The View Since February
3 src American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. · The Walt Disney Company · Federal Communications Commission · Brendan Carr · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-06 | FCC Votes to Repeal the National Television Ownership Cap and Replace It With Case-by-Case Review; Gomez Dissents (Adopted August 6, Text Released October 1)
2 src Federal Communications Commission · Brendan Carr · Anna Gomez | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-24 | Paramount Agrees to Pause $110B Warner Bros. Discovery Acquisition Until June 2027, Pending State-AG and WGA Antitrust Suits
4 src Rob Bonta · David Ellison · Paramount Skydance · Warner Bros. Discovery | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-16 | Paramount-WBD Antitrust Hearing Scheduled July 16 in Faust Subscriber Suit; Bonta-Led State-AG Coalition Complaint Drafting Concurrent
7 src Rob Bonta · David Ellison · Paramount Skydance · Warner Bros. Discovery | | reported |
| 2026-06-25 | Vance 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 | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-11 | Lesley Stahl Signs Two-Year 60 Minutes Extension Through 2028, Choosing to Stay Amid Post-Capture Upheaval
4 src David Ellison · CBS · Paramount Skydance | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-08 | CNN Investigation Links Bari Weiss CBS Firings Directly to Paramount-WBD Merger Timeline; Bonta Investigation Active
3 src Bari Weiss · David Ellison · Rob Bonta · Scott Pelley · +3 | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-03 | 60 Minutes Phase 5: Pelley Fired for Insubordination; Cooper Gone; CBS Capture Complete
2 src Scott Pelley · Bari Weiss · Nick Bilton · Anderson Cooper · +7 | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-01 | 60 Minutes 'Black Thursday': Weiss Fires Alfonsi, Vega, Simon; Pelley Says She's 'Murdering' the Show; Dan Rather Letter
3 src Bari Weiss · Sharyn Alfonsi · Cecilia Vega · Tanya Simon · +5 | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-27 | CBS 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2026-05-27 | NPR Lays Off 10 Journalists, 18+ Take Buyouts as Federal Funding Clawback and Station-Fee Revenue Loss Compound
4 src NPR | | confirmed |
| 2026-05-21 | Colbert's Late Show Ends on Record Ratings; CBS Timeslot Sold to Byron Allen, Replacement Show Collapses
4 src CBS · Paramount Skydance | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-28 | FCC Media Bureau Order DA 26-416 Calls In Licenses of All Eight ABC-Owned Stations for Early Renewal Within 30 Days
3 src Federal Communications Commission · FCC Media Bureau · The Walt Disney Company · American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. · +1 | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-22 | Federal Judge Grants Summary Judgment to Bill Maher and HBO, Dismissing Laura Loomer's Defamation Suit Over 2024 'Real Time' Joke
3 src Laura Loomer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · Lindsey Graham · Donald Trump | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-17 | E.D. Cal. Judge Enjoins Nexstar-TEGNA Integration and Orders TEGNA Held Separate; A Later Order Bars Nexstar Executives From TEGNA’s Board
3 src | | reported |
| 2026-04-16 | FTC Withdraws Its Civil Investigative Demand to Media Matters the Day After Consent Judgments With Three Ad Agencies; Both Media Matters Cases Then Dismissed by Stipulation
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Andrew Ferguson | | confirmed |
| 2026-04-03 | Washington Post Data Analysis: ICE Still Arresting Immigrants Without Criminal Records at 70%+ Rate Despite Administration Pledge to Target Criminals
2 src ICE · Department of Homeland Security · Washington Post | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-30 | FCC Media Bureau Notice DA 26-300 Says Favorable Candidate Ad Rates Cover Party Coordinated Ads and Joint-Fundraising Committees
2 src Federal Communications Commission · FCC Media Bureau · Sherrod Brown · National Republican Congressional Committee | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-23 | ABC, Meta and Paramount Tell Congress How Their Trump Settlement Payments Were Designated; the Library Fund That Was Meant to Receive Them Is Dissolved
4 src Donald Trump · ABC News · Meta Platforms · Paramount Skydance · +2 | | reported |
| 2026-03-19 | FCC Media Bureau Approves Nexstar-TEGNA on Delegated Authority, Waiving the National Ownership Cap; Deal Closes the Same Day
3 src Federal Communications Commission · FCC Media Bureau · Brendan Carr | | reported |
| 2026-03-10 | U.S. Records Sharpest Press Freedom Drop in Americas, Falls from 4th to 11th Place
3 src Donald Trump · Voice of America |
| confirmed |
| 2026-01-05 | CPB Announces Its Board Voted to Dissolve the Corporation After Congress Rescinded All Its Federal Funding
2 src | | confirmed |
| 2025-12-21 | CBS 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 |
| confirmed |
| 2025-12-15 | Trump Sues the BBC for $10 Billion Over a Documentary Edit; Jury Trial Set for February 2027, Mediation the Week of October 26
2 src Donald Trump · Alejandro Brito | | reported |
| 2025-09-08 | CBS Appoints Trump Ally Kenneth Weinstein as Network Ombudsman Following Merger Pressure
3 src Donald Trump · CBS News · Paramount · Skydance |
| confirmed |
| 2025-07-07 | Ghana Launches Democracy Capture Index Revealing Widespread Institutional Capture in Africa
3 src |
| 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 |
| 2025-02-12 | X Settles Trump's Deplatforming Suit for About $10 Million, CNBC Reports, Citing a Source
1 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk | | reported |
| 2024-12-13 | ABC Settles Trump's Stephanopoulos Defamation Suit: $15 Million Toward a Presidential Library, $1 Million in Legal Fees
4 src Donald Trump · ABC News · American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. · Alejandro Brito | | reported |
| 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 |
| 2024-07-13 | X Algorithm Modified to Amplify Musk and Right-Wing Content Following Trump Endorsement
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 2023-12-07 | Washington Post Workers Strike Against Bezos—First Walkout in Nearly 50 Years Over Job Cuts and Stalled Negotiations
3 src Jeff Bezos · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 2023-07-23 | Twitter Transformed to X with Systematic Content Moderation Rollback and Political Weaponization
3 src Elon Musk · Twitter · X |
| confirmed |
| 2022-10-27 | Elon Musk Completes Twitter Acquisition with Substantial Saudi and Qatari Investment
3 src Elon Musk · Qatar Investment Authority · Larry Ellison |
| confirmed |
| 2018-11-28 | Orbán Allies Donate 476 Hungarian Media Outlets to a Single Foundation, KESMA; a December 5 Government Decree Exempts the Merger From Competition Review
13 src Viktor Orbán |
| reported |
| 2018-05-14 | Seattle Passes Head Tax on Large Employers—Amazon Threatens Expansion Halt, Washington Post Editorial Aligns with Owner's Interests
3 src Amazon · Jeff Bezos · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 2017-08-01 | Intelligence-Media Pipeline Matures: Six Former Intelligence Directors Simultaneously Hold Cable News Analyst Positions
2 src James Clapper · John Brennan · Michael Hayden · Leon Panetta |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-22 | Washington Post Launches "Democracy Dies in Darkness" Slogan Under Bezos Ownership
3 src Jeff Bezos · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-21 | Daily Wire launches; multiple outlets report seed funding from Farris Wilks
3 src Ben Shapiro | | reported |
| 2013-08-05 | Jeff Bezos Purchases Washington Post for $250 Million
3 src Jeff Bezos |
| confirmed |
| 1988-01-01 | Herman and Chomsky Publish "Manufacturing Consent," Proposing the Propaganda Model of Mass Media
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1977-10-20 | Carl Bernstein Exposes CIA Media Network in Rolling Stone: 400+ Journalists Secretly Served Intelligence Agency
3 src CIA · William Colby · George H.W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 1970-01-01 | "A Plan For Putting the GOP on TV News" — the Nixon-era blueprint for Fox News
4 src Roger Ailes · H.R. Haldeman · Richard Nixon · Nixon Administration · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1968-08-01 | Robert Maxwell's Secret KGB Meeting Coincides with Czechoslovakia Invasion Planning
3 src Robert Maxwell |
| confirmed |
| 1953-01-01 | Operation Mockingbird: CIA Cultivates Hundreds of Journalists at Major American Outlets
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles |
| confirmed |