#Media-Manipulation
Events indexed under #Media-Manipulation — 28 entries in the record.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-10-27 | Elon Musk's xAI Launches Grokipedia to Challenge Wikipedia with AI-Generated Content Elon Musk · xAI | reported | |
| 2025-07-02 | Paramount Pays $16M to Settle Trump's 60 Minutes Lawsuit Donald Trump · Kamala Harris · Paramount Global · CBS News · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | Paramount Settles Trump's $20 Billion '60 Minutes' Lawsuit for $16 Million Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paramount Global · CBS News · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-11 | DHS Awards $200 Million Ad Contract to Republican Firms Without Full Competitive Bidding Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kristi Noem · Jay Connaughton · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-20 | X Threatens Interpublic Group with Potential Government Interference Over Ad Spending Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Linda Yaccarino · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-04 | Jason Miller Launches Gettr with Hidden Guo Wengui Funding Jason Miller · Guo Wengui · Gettr · Steve Bannon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2018-08-01 | Guo Wengui Begins Funding Steve Bannon Operations Guo Wengui · Miles Guo · Steve Bannon · Guo Media · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-03-30 | Sinclair Forces Anchors at Dozens of Stations to Read Identical "Fake News" Script Sinclair Broadcast Group · Local news anchors · John Oliver | confirmed | |
| 2016-10-09 | Trump Stages Pre-Debate Event with Bill Clinton Accusers Donald Trump · Paula Jones · Juanita Broaddrick · Kathleen Willey · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-08-01 | David Pecker Agrees to Catch and Kill Negative Trump Stories at Trump Tower Meeting David Pecker · Donald Trump · Michael Cohen · Hope Hicks · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2009-11-17 | Climategate Email Hack Manufactures Controversy Before Copenhagen Summit Climate Research Unit · University of East Anglia · Phil Jones · Michael Mann · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2009-09-01 | James O'Keefe's Deceptively Edited ACORN Videos Trigger Destruction of Voter Registration Organization James O'Keefe · Hannah Giles · ACORN | confirmed | |
| 2009-02-19 | Rick Santelli CNBC Rant Triggers Immediate Koch Network Tea Party Response Rick Santelli · David Koch · Charles Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2005-01-07 | Armstrong Williams Paid 40K for Illegal Government Propaganda Armstrong Williams · Rod Paige · U.S. Department of Education · Ketchum Inc · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-15 | WHIG Establishes Systematic Opposition Research and Critic Monitoring Apparatus Karl Rove · Karen Hughes · Mary Matalin · Condoleezza Rice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-08 | WHIG Launches 'Smoking Gun/Mushroom Cloud' Propaganda Blitz White House Iraq Group · Condoleezza Rice · Dick Cheney · George W. Bush · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-07 | WHIG Executes Coordinated Media Blitz Demonstrating Crisis Template Dick Cheney · Condoleezza Rice · George W. Bush · Andrew H. Card Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-06 | Andrew Card Reveals Marketing-Based Approach to Iraq War Campaign Andrew Card · George W. Bush · White House Iraq Group · Elisabeth Bumiller | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-05 | Network Booking Coordinators Systematically Facilitate WHIG Synchronized Propaganda Appearances Network Booking Coordinators · Karen Hughes · White House Communications Staff · CNN Booking Producers · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-28 | WHIG Establishes Daily Executive Producer Coordination System White House Iraq Group · Dick Cheney · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2002-08-15 | CNN Executives Coordinate with WHIG to Facilitate September Propaganda Rollout Walter Isaacson · CNN Executives · White House Iraq Group · Karen Hughes · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1935-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Launches Unprecedented Multi-Million Dollar Anti-New Deal Propaganda Campaign National Association of Manufacturers · Robert Lund · Du Pont · General Motors · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1929-03-31 | Bernays "Torches of Freedom" Campaign Uses Feminism to Sell Cigarettes Edward Bernays · American Tobacco Company · George Washington Hill | confirmed | |
| 1923-01-01 | Edward Bernays Publishes "Crystallizing Public Opinion" Launching Modern PR Industry Edward Bernays · American Tobacco Company · Sigmund Freud | confirmed | |
| 1917-04-13 | Committee on Public Information Created: Wilson Establishes Federal Propaganda Machine President Woodrow Wilson · George Creel · Secretary of State Robert Lansing · Secretary of War Newton Baker · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1915-02-08 | Birth of a Nation Premieres in Los Angeles: Groundbreaking Film Glorifies KKK, Depicts Black Americans as Evil D.W. Griffith · Woodrow Wilson · William J. Simmons · Ku Klux Klan | confirmed | |
| 1898-02-15 | USS Maine Explosion - Yellow Journalism Manufactures War Fever William Randolph Hearst · Joseph Pulitzer · New York Journal · New York World · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1840-11-02 | Log Cabin Campaign Uses Image Manipulation and Corruption Attacks to Defeat Van Buren William Henry Harrison · Martin Van Buren · Whig Party · Charles Ogle | confirmed |