The Red Pill Library

Document · 2019

YouTube

YouTube's September 2019 post, after the FTC settlement: anyone watching children's content would be treated as a child for data purposes, with no personalized ads.

Document · 2026

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC

TikTok's January 22, 2026 announcement that the U.S. joint venture now exists: Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX hold 15 percent each, ByteDance keeps 19.9 percent, and…

Government Record · 2020

Debra J. Brody and Qiuping Gu

During 2015–2018, 13.2% of U.S. adults aged 18 and over reported antidepressant use in the past 30 days; the brief reports 17.7% for women and 8.4%…

News Report · 2023

Associated Press

Associated Press, January 2023: reports researcher Andrew McKenzie-McHarg found "conspiracy theory" used as early as 1863 and "conspiracy theorist" in 1962, before the CIA's 1967 memo,…

Court Filing · 2023

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, September 2023: in the doctors' ivermectin suit, it ruled they could pursue claims that FDA exceeded its authority and sent the…

Court Filing · 2024

Judge Jeffrey Vincent Brown, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Judge Jeffrey Brown, federal court in Texas, March 2024: dismissed all claims in the ivermectin case with prejudice under the settlement, each side paying its own…

Court Filing · 2024

Parties to Apter v. Department of Health and Human Services

Parties to Apter v. HHS, March 2024: FDA agreed to retire its consumer page "Why You Should Not Use Ivermectin" and delete certain social media posts,…

Government Record · 2015

National Endowment for the Arts

National Endowment for the Arts: in 1956 the State Department, with Secretary John Foster Dulles's support, began sending top jazz musicians abroad, including Dave Brubeck, as…

News Report · 2019

NBC News

NBC, November 2019: Machelle Hobson died before trial after pleading not guilty and being found unfit to stand trial. She was never convicted.

Government Record · 2010

U.S. Army

U.S. Army investigation of the July 12, 2007 helicopter attack in Baghdad, released 2010: among its recommendations, condolence payments to families of two children wounded in…

Government Record · 2012

Gittipong Paruchabutr

A 2012 Army School of Advanced Military Studies paper describing DARPA's October 2011 Narrative Networks solicitation: research on how stories shape memory, emotion and judgment. The…

Court Filing · 2024

High Court of Justice of England and Wales, King’s Bench Division, Administrative Court

High Court of England and Wales, March 2024: put off a decision on Assange's renewed request to appeal his extradition on three grounds for 55 days,…

Peer-Reviewed Study · 1968

Robert B. Zajonc

Robert Zajonc's 1968 study, the origin of the "mere exposure effect": simply seeing something over and over makes people like it more.

Corporate Filing

Audius

Audius: when artists sell music directly on the platform, it keeps a 10 percent fee and the artist gets 90 percent. That applies to direct sales,…

Document · 2016

Ida Auken

Ida Auken, World Economic Forum collection, November 2016: a first-person essay imagining a 2030 city where the narrator owns nothing and products are services. It is…

Document · 2025

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Cooper, J.); reported by BakerHostetler

BakerHostetler law firm, November 2025: reports that a federal court in Washington, D.C. held in September 2025 that the IRS's political-activity test for 501(c)(4) groups was…

Corporate Filing · 2026

Bandcamp Daily

Bandcamp Fridays: on set days Bandcamp waives its cut and passes the money to artists, more than $120 million since 2020 by its own count.

Corporate Filing

Bandcamp

Bandcamp: on average 82 percent of each sale goes to the artist or label, usually within 24 to 48 hours. Bandcamp's own figure.

Document · 2023

Barack Obama

Barack Obama's December 2023 post saying he was proud to release Leave the World Behind through Higher Ground.

News Report · 2023

Variety; Sam Esmail quoted by Matt Donnelly

Variety, September 2023: director Sam Esmail says Obama gave him notes on the script based on his experience of how a real crisis would unfold.

News Report · 2022

Bari Weiss

Journalist Bari Weiss, December 2022: a Twitter Files thread saying Twitter teams secretly built blacklists, kept disfavored tweets from trending, and limited visibility of whole accounts.…

Peer-Reviewed Study · 1963

Stanley Milgram

Twenty-six of 40 participants, or 65%, reached the 450-volt maximum in this reported condition. Fourteen broke off earlier; the result should not be generalized uncritically to…

News Report · 1977

Carl Bernstein

Carl Bernstein in Rolling Stone, October 1977: reports that CIA ties to the press were closest with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc., according…

Document · 2020

YouTube

YouTube began rolling out the made-for-kids data changes worldwide on January 6, 2020.

Google's control over search ranking, and what neutrality means when one company sets the boundaries of findable knowledge.

On 8 June 1967, Israeli forces attacked the USS Liberty, killing 34 American servicemen and wounding 174. The book documents the attack, the survivor testimony, the…

The two-party system presented as the mechanism that limits political options rather than provides them. The book traces the Uniparty structure historically and documents how polarisation…

Drawing on whistleblower testimony, satellite imagery, and declassified intelligence, the book documents the 2026 US-Israel strike on Iran: no congressional authorisation, no imminent threat, and the…