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- Sony Group: Stock Information and Major Shareholders (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2026
Sony Group Corporation
Sony's shareholder list (September 2026): the largest registered holders are Japanese trust banks and custodians, which hold shares for many underlying investors.
- Sony Music: Lil Nas X Releases MONTERO on Columbia Records (2021)
Corporate Filing · 2021
Sony Music Canada
Sony Music, September 2021: Lil Nas X released his debut album MONTERO on Columbia Records, a Sony label, not Warner.
- Sony WH-1000XM5 Specifications: Frequency Response
Corporate Filing
Sony
Sony WH-1000XM5 headphone specs: wired playback reaches down to 4 Hz, but Bluetooth starts at 20 Hz. Below 20 Hz is infrasound.
- Soundless Music: Infrasound Concert Experiment (2003)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2003
Sarah Angliss
Sarah Angliss's 2003 London concerts that secretly added infrasound to some pieces to see if the audience felt it. She called the result "tantalising but inconclusive."
- SpeechNow.org v. FEC (D.C. Cir. 2010)
Court Filing · 2010
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Federal appeals court, March 2010, full court: limits on contributions to groups that only make independent political spending are unconstitutional. With Citizens United, this ruling created…
- Spotify Advertising: Real-Time Mood and Context Targeting
Corporate Filing
Spotify Advertising
Spotify Advertising: lets advertisers reach listeners based on the activity, moment or mood of the playlist they are playing.
- Spotify denies it’s playlisting fake artists. So why are all these fake artists on its playlists?
News Report · 2017
Tim Ingham; Music Business Worldwide
Music Business Worldwide, 2017: reports Spotify playlists filled with "fake" artists, and Spotify's flat denial that it created them.
- Spotify Patent 10,891,948: Detecting Emotion from a Listener’s Voice (2021)
Government Record · 2021
Spotify AB / United States Patent and Trademark Office
Spotify's 2021 patent on detecting a listener's emotional state, gender, age and accent from their voice to pick content. A patent, not proof it was used.
- Spotify Removes Neil Young’s Music (2022)
News Report · 2022
CBS News
CBS News, January 2022: Spotify removed Neil Young's music at his request, saying it regretted his decision.
- Spotify reveals its latest measures to handle AI music
News Report · 2025
Music Ally
Music Ally, September 2025: Spotify says it does not create or own any music and that all of it comes from licensed third parties. Spotify's own…
- Spotify Support: Autoplay
Document · 2026
Spotify Support
Spotify Support: when an album or playlist ends, Autoplay keeps going with similar songs "so the music never stops."
- Spotify: 1,000-Stream Minimum for Royalties (2024)
Corporate Filing · 2024
Spotify
Spotify, April 2024: songs now need at least 1,000 streams a year, plus a minimum number of listeners it does not disclose, to earn any recording…
- Spotify: Form 20-F, 2025
Corporate Filing · 2025
Spotify Technology S.A.
Spotify's 2025 annual filing: founders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon hold 69.3 percent of the voting power through special voting certificates. Tencent owns 8.1 percent of…
- Spotify: Mood Quiz Playlist Feature (2019)
Corporate Filing · 2019
Spotify
Spotify, May 2019: launched a quiz that reads your mood and suggests a playlist.
- Spotify: Royalties Guide
Corporate Filing
Spotify
Spotify's royalties guide: "No major streaming service pays per-stream." Spotify says it pays rightsholders a share of revenue and what artists get depends on their label…
- Squid Game Emmy Awards Press Conference
Document · 2022
Netflix
Netflix: Squid Game, a deadly game show for people in debt, debuted September 17, 2021 and reached 111 million accounts in 28 days. Netflix's own numbers.
- Stanford: Alex Stamos Biography (2026)
Document
Stanford University, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Stanford University biography: Alex Stamos was Yahoo's chief information security officer before joining Facebook. This contradicts claims that he went straight from a government intelligence job…
- State Department Inspector General: Inspection of the Global Engagement Center (2022)
Government Record · 2022
U.S. Department of State Office of Inspector General
State Department Inspector General, September 2022: found weaknesses at the Global Engagement Center in structure, contractor oversight, planning and risk reviews, and made 18 recommendations that…
- State Department: Address on the Cultural Presentations Program (1962)
Government Record · 1962
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
A 1962 State Department speech on its Cultural Presentations Program, which sent American performing artists on tours abroad.
- State Department: Ambassador Satch (Louis Armstrong) Record Album
Government Record
U.S. Department of State / National Museum of American Diplomacy
The State Department's diplomacy museum on Louis Armstrong's "Ambassador Satch" tours: the State Department used jazz as Cold War cultural diplomacy.
- State Department: Global Engagement Center Closed (2024)
Government Record · 2024
U.S. Department of State
U.S. State Department archive page: records that the Global Engagement Center closed on December 23, 2024, and describes its foreign-focused mission. The department's own page.
- State Department: Report on the International Cultural Presentations Program (1961)
Government Record · 1961
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian
State Department 1961 report: the Cultural Presentations Program, begun in 1954, had put American performers in front of some 15 million people worldwide, at about $2.5…
- Statement about nCoV and our pandemic exercise
Document · 2020
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, January 24, 2020: the Event 201 organizers say they did not predict the new coronavirus and that their fictional scenario…
- Statement by the President on strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan
Government Record · 1998
William J. Clinton
Clinton's August 20, 1998 statement ordering strikes in Afghanistan and Sudan, 3 days after his grand jury testimony.