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- House Hearing: The Twitter Files Transcript (2023)
Government Record · 2023
U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government
House Weaponization Subcommittee, March 2023: official hearing transcript. Shellenberger says taxpayers fund a censorship industrial complex, and Rep. Plaskett answers that the Twitter Files were cherry-picked,…
- House Judiciary: FBI Narrative of Catholic Americans as Extremists (2025)
Government Record · 2025
House Judiciary Committee Republican staff
House Judiciary Committee Republican staff, July 2025: using over 1,300 new FBI pages, alleges broader activity, including that the FBI surveilled a priest and opened an…
- House Judiciary: Google Admits Censorship Under Biden (2025)
Government Record · 2025
House Judiciary Committee majority
House Judiciary Committee majority, September 2025: calls Alphabet's letter an admission that the Biden administration pressured Google to remove content that did not break YouTube's rules.…
- House Judiciary: The Biden-Harris White House Censorship Enterprise (2024)
Government Record · 2024
House Judiciary Committee and Select Subcommittee Republican staff
House Judiciary Committee Republican staff, May 2024: a report describing White House pressure on platforms and platform responses, using documents and testimony. It quotes a Facebook…
- House Judiciary: The Censorship-Industrial Complex Staff Report (2023)
Government Record · 2023
House Judiciary Committee and Select Subcommittee Republican staff
House Judiciary Committee Republican staff, November 2023: reads subpoenaed Election Integrity Partnership records as outsourced government censorship, saying EIP forwarded links to platforms with recommendations. Stanford…
- House Judiciary: The Weaponization of CISA (2023)
Government Record · 2023
House Judiciary Committee and Select Subcommittee Republican staff
House Judiciary Committee Republican staff, June 2023: an interim report alleging CISA helped censor Americans directly and through outside groups. It also records Director Easterly's statement…
- House Oversight Hearing: Twitter and the Biden Laptop Story (2023)
Government Record · 2023
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
House Oversight Committee hearing, February 2023: former Twitter official Yoel Roth said no one in government told Twitter a Hunter Biden hack-and-leak was coming. Democrats said…
- House Oversight: Comer Subpoenas Sixteen Thirty Fund Over Chorus (2026)
Government Record · 2026
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform majority
House Oversight Committee majority, May 2026: Chairman Comer subpoenaed Sixteen Thirty Fund for Chorus documents. The majority says the fund admitted Chorus was its project in…
- House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic: Final Report (2024)
Government Record · 2024
House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic majority
House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic majority, December 2024: its final report concludes NIH funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and broadly…
- House Small Business Committee: Instruments and Casualties of the Censorship-Industrial Complex (2024)
Government Record · 2024
House Committee on Small Business majority staff
House Small Business Committee Republican staff, September 2024: reports that State Department-backed prize money went to the Global Disinformation Index and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue,…
- Houston Police Department: Astroworld Festival Investigative Report (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Houston Police Department
The Houston Police Department's investigative report on the Astroworld Festival (1,266 pages, redacted). Radio logs show the concert declared over at 10:13 p.m.
- How & Why DOD Works With Hollywood
Government Record · 2020
U.S. Department of Defense
The Defense Department explains how it works with Hollywood: production agreements let it review a rough cut of the film before release.
- How CoComelon Captures Our Children’s Attention
News Report · 2024
The New Yorker
The New Yorker's 2024 investigation of CoComelon: fast cuts, attention testing and analytics built to hold small children. Moonbug's executives deny the attention tool described came…
- How do social media feed algorithms affect attitudes and behavior in an election campaign?
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2023
Andrew M. Guess et al.
Changing Facebook and Instagram feeds from algorithmic to chronological order changed activity and exposure but did not significantly change measured polarization or other key attitudes over…
- Ice Cube Claims He Was Banned from The View and Oprah for His Views
News Report · 2023
Deadline
Deadline, 2023: Ice Cube says he was kept off The View and Oprah because of his views. His own claim.
- ICJ: South Africa v. Israel Additional Measures Order (March 2024)
Court Filing · 2024
International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice, March 28, 2024: ordered additional provisional measures requiring unhindered, large-scale delivery of basic services and humanitarian aid, including food, water, fuel and…
- ICJ: South Africa v. Israel Case Record and Status (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice case page, current as of September 2026: lists written filing deadlines and Colombia's withdrawal of its intervention on September 22, 2026. No…
- ICJ: South Africa v. Israel Provisional Measures Order (January 2024)
Court Filing · 2024
International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice, January 26, 2024: in South Africa v. Israel, found at least some rights South Africa claimed under the Genocide Convention plausible and…
- ICJ: South Africa v. Israel Rafah Order (May 2024)
Court Filing · 2024
International Court of Justice
International Court of Justice, May 24, 2024: ordered Israel to halt its Rafah offensive insofar as it may inflict conditions that could destroy the Palestinian group,…
- Idiocracy (2006): release record
Document · 2006
Rotten Tomatoes
Catalog record: Idiocracy released September 1, 2006.
- Idiocracy: An Oral History
News Report · 2021
Inverse; Mike Judge and production participants
Inverse's oral history of Idiocracy: Mike Judge says Fox held back on promoting it after the way Office Space had played out.
- Illinois Public Act 103-0556 (SB 1782)
Government Record · 2023
Illinois General Assembly
Illinois's child vlogger law, signed August 11, 2023 and effective July 1, 2024: parents who make money from videos featuring their children must set aside a…
- In re International Business Machines Corp. (2d Cir. 1982)
Court Filing · 1982
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Federal appeals court, 1982: quotes the Justice Department's January 1982 statement that the IBM case was 'without merit' and Assistant Attorney General William Baxter's reasons for…
- Inspector General’s Survey of the Cuban Operation and Associated Documents
Government Record · 1961
CIA Inspector General; Lyman Kirkpatrick
The report documents unrealistic appraisal, inadequate policymaker information, and planning based substantially on hope of internal resistance. It supports institutional failure but does not itself use…