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- Memo from Secretary of State Rogers to President Nixon on Duke Ellington’s Soviet Tour (1971)
Government Record · 1971
William P. Rogers / U.S. Department of State
Secretary of State Rogers to President Nixon, 1971: Duke Ellington's Soviet tour under the State Department's program was "an unqualified communications success."
- Meta-Analysis: Binaural Beats and Cognition, Anxiety and Pain (2019)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Miguel Garcia-Argibay; Miguel A. Santed; José M. Reales
2019 review of 22 studies: binaural beats had a medium overall effect on memory, attention, anxiety and pain, varying with frequency and listening time.
- Meta: Ending Trump Facebook and Instagram Suspension (2023)
Corporate Filing · 2023
Meta
Meta, January 2023: restored Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts with guardrails, saying the risk had sufficiently receded. A July 12, 2024 update ended the extra penalties…
- Meta: More Speech and Fewer Mistakes (2025)
Corporate Filing · 2025
Meta
Meta, January 2025: ended third-party fact-checking in the U.S. and moved to Community Notes, saying the program too often became a tool to censor. A May…
- Meta: Types of Content We Demote (2026)
Corporate Filing
Meta
Meta: its transparency page says it reduces Feed distribution of content it considers problematic, low quality or borderline, including some content that does not break its…
- Michael Shellenberger: Written Testimony on the Twitter Files (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Michael Shellenberger
Journalist Michael Shellenberger, March 2023: written testimony alleging repeated government pressure on platforms, while saying he does not know how much censorship was coordinated beyond what…
- Milliman: Background Music and Supermarket Shoppers (1982)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 1982
Ronald E. Milliman
Ronald Milliman's 1982 supermarket study, run in 1980: slow background music made shoppers move more slowly and spend more than fast music did. One store, nine…
- Minnesota Session Laws 2024, Chapter 103 (HF 3488), Section 181A.13
Government Record · 2024
State of Minnesota
Minnesota's 2024 law on children in monetized online content: earnings tied to a minor must go into a trust, children under 14 cannot be used in…
- Minority Report (2002): release record
Document · 2002
The Numbers
Catalog record: Minority Report released June 21, 2002 by 20th Century Fox.
- Missouri v. Biden, Memorandum Ruling on Request for Preliminary Injunction
Court Filing · 2023
Terry A. Doughty, U.S. District Judge
The district court issued a preliminary injunction after finding likely First Amendment violations. This was a likelihood finding at the preliminary-injunction stage, not a final merits…
- Missouri v. Biden, No. 23-30445 (substituted opinion)
Court Filing · 2023
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
The substituted opinion found likely coercion or significant encouragement by five listed government actors, reversed as to others, and narrowed the injunction. These remained preliminary likelihood…
- Missouri v. Biden: Consent Decree (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
Parties to Missouri v. Biden
Parties to Missouri v. Biden, March 2026: a ten-year consent decree limiting certain coercion of platforms by the Surgeon General, CDC and CISA. It says no…
- Missouri v. Biden: Deposition of FBI Agent Elvis Chan (2022)
Court Filing · 2022
Elvis Chan, Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI agent Elvis Chan, November 2022 deposition in Missouri v. Biden: said the FBI shared threat information with platforms with no strings attached and that he…
- Missouri v. Biden: District Court Preliminary Injunction (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
Judge Terry A. Doughty, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
Judge Terry Doughty, federal court in Louisiana, July 2023: granted a preliminary injunction, finding the plaintiffs likely to win parts of their claim that officials pressured…
- Missouri v. Biden: Fifth Circuit Opinion, September (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, September 8, 2023: agreed that some federal officials likely coerced platforms to censor posts, and narrowed the injunction. This opinion was…
- Missouri v. Biden: Fifth Circuit Order Vacating Injunction (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, August 2024: following the Supreme Court, it vacated the district court judgment and the preliminary injunction in full and sent the…
- Missouri v. Biden: Fifth Circuit Revised Opinion, October (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, October 3, 2023: the revised opinion replaced the September one and extended the analysis to CISA. It describes contacts by the…
- Moonbug Entertainment to Be Acquired by Next Generation Media Company Backed by Kevin Mayer, Tom Staggs and Blackstone
Document · 2021
Moonbug Entertainment; Blackstone
Blackstone's 2021 release: Moonbug, owner of CoComelon, Blippi and Little Baby Bum, agreed to be bought by the new Blackstone-backed media company run by former Disney…
- Murthy v. Missouri, 603 U.S. 43
Court Filing · 2024
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court held that neither the individual nor state plaintiffs established Article III standing, reversed the Fifth Circuit, and remanded. It reversed on standing and…
- Murthy v. Missouri: Justice Alito Dissent (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., Supreme Court of the United States
Justice Samuel Alito, June 2024: in dissent, he would have reached the merits and called the government's contacts with Facebook unrelenting pressure to suppress free speech.…
- Murthy v. Missouri: Stanford and EIP Amicus Brief (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
Stanford Internet Observatory and Election Integrity Partnership
Stanford Internet Observatory and the Election Integrity Partnership, December 2023: a Supreme Court brief saying they never censored speech or called for it, and that platforms…
- Murthy v. Missouri: Supreme Court Opinion (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Supreme Court, June 2024: the plaintiffs had no standing to seek an injunction, so the Court did not decide whether the government contacts were lawful.…
- Music and Streaming Market Study: Final Report
Government Record · 2022
UK Competition and Markets Authority
UK Competition and Markets Authority study (2022): Universal, Sony and Warner together had more than 70 percent of UK music streams.
- NASA Spaceflight Standard: Infrasound Limits for Astronauts (2022)
Government Record · 2022
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA's 2022 spaceflight health standard limits infrasound (1 to 20 Hz) to under 150 decibels at an astronaut's head. A safety limit, not an emotion study.