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- USA Today, Arizona Republic and Center for Public Integrity: Copy, Paste, Legislate (2019)
News Report · 2019
USA Today, Arizona Republic, Center for Public Integrity (two-year investigation)
USA Today, the Arizona Republic and the Center for Public Integrity, April 2019: found at least 10,000 state bills from 2010 to 2018 copied almost entirely…
- Utah v. Franke and Hildebrandt
Government Record · 2024
Washington County Attorney’s Office
Washington County, Utah prosecutors' case summary: YouTube parenting influencer Ruby Franke and Jodi Hildebrandt pleaded guilty to aggravated child abuse and were sentenced on February 20,…
- Utopia (2013 to 2014): series record
Document · 2013
Rotten Tomatoes
Catalog record for the original Utopia (Channel 4, 2013 to 2014): strangers hunted by an organization over a graphic novel manuscript.
- Utopia (2013), Season 1: episode record
Document · 2013
Rotten Tomatoes
Catalog record for Utopia season 1, episode 6 (February 2013): a vaccine is ready to be shipped across England.
- Utopia (2013), Season 1: Prime Video listing
Document · 2013
Prime Video
Prime Video listing for the original Utopia (2013), still available as of October 2026.
- Utopia (2020), Season 1: Prime Video listing
Document · 2020
Prime Video
Prime Video listing for the Utopia remake (2020), still available as of October 2026.
- Utopia Canceled After One Season at Amazon
News Report · 2020
Variety
Variety, November 2020: Amazon cancelled Utopia after one season, about 2 months after it launched. No official reason was given.
- Utopia Sets Out to Save the World September 25 on Prime Video
Document · 2020
Amazon Studios
Amazon Studios, August 2020: the Utopia remake premieres on Prime Video September 25, 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- V for Vendetta (2006): release record
Document · 2006
Rotten Tomatoes
Catalog record: V for Vendetta released in the U.S. March 17, 2006.
- V Magazine: Taylor Swift Endorses Biden and Harris (2020)
News Report · 2020
V Magazine
V Magazine, October 2020: in her own words, Swift said she would vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
- Vanguard: Form 13F Notice, June 30, 2026
Corporate Filing · 2026
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Vanguard's June 2026 holdings notice, pointing to its ten affiliated managers after its January 2026 reorganization. Together they reported about 13.1 million Warner Music shares, 1.2…
- Vivendi: 2025 Annual Report
Corporate Filing · 2026
Vivendi SE
Vivendi's 2025 annual report: it owned 9.91 percent of Universal Music Group, a minority stake, not a subsidiary.
- VIZIO to Pay $2.2 Million to FTC, State of New Jersey to Settle Charges It Collected Viewing Histories on 11 Million Smart Televisions without Users’ Consent
Government Record · 2017
Federal Trade Commission; New Jersey Attorney General
FTC, 2017: smart TV maker Vizio paid $2.2 million to settle charges it tracked what 11 million TVs watched, second by second, and sold the data…
- Wag the Dog (1997): release record
Document · 1997
Rotten Tomatoes
Catalog record: Wag the Dog, a film about a staged war to distract from a presidential sex scandal, opened December 25, 1997.
- Wall Street Journal: Inside the U.S. Antitrust Probe of Google (2015)
News Report · 2015
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal, March 2015: reported on an FTC staff memo, released by mistake, in which FTC lawyers in 2012 recommended suing Google and found 'real…
- WALL-E (2008): Disney D23 record
Document · 2008
D23: The Official Disney Fan Club
Disney's D23 record: WALL-E released June 27, 2008.
- Walt Disney Company Fiscal 2025 Form 10-K (2025)
Corporate Filing · 2025
The Walt Disney Company
Disney annual report for fiscal 2025, filed November 2025: lists the ABC network, the Disney, Freeform, FX and National Geographic channels (73% owned) and eight owned…
- Warner Bros. Discovery 2025 Form 10-K (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2025
Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
Warner Bros. Discovery annual report for 2025, filed February 2026, its last as an independent company: lists CNN, HBO Max, HBO, Discovery, TNT Sports and the…
- Warner Music Group: Form 10-K, Fiscal 2025
Corporate Filing · 2025
Warner Music Group Corp.
Warner Music Group's 2025 annual report: Len Blavatnik's Access Industries holds about 98 percent of the voting power and 72 percent of the economic interest.
- Warner Music Group: Proxy Statement (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2026
Warner Music Group Corp.
Warner Music Group's 2026 proxy: Access controls the company through supervoting shares. Vanguard held 11.5 percent and BlackRock 5.8 percent of the public Class A shares,…
- Was Sesame Street in Iraq Really Funded by USAID?
News Report · 2025
Snopes
Snopes, February 2025: says the Iraq claim mixes up a USAID-funded Sesame education project with a separately funded Arabic Sesame TV show.
- Washington Post: How the Post Analyzed Hunter Biden Laptop Data (2022)
News Report · 2022
The Washington Post
Washington Post, March 2022: two security experts it hired verified thousands of emails from the laptop data as authentic, using cryptographic signatures from Google and other…
- Washington Post: Koch-Backed Political Coalition, Designed to Shield Donors, Raised $400 Million in 2012 (2014)
News Report · 2014
Washington Post
Washington Post, January 2014: a network of conservative groups tied to the Koch brothers, built to keep donors hidden, raised about $400 million in the 2012…
- Washington Post: The Death of Monica Petersen in Haiti (2016)
News Report · 2016
Glenn Kessler / The Washington Post
Washington Post fact check, December 2016: on the death of sex-worker advocate Monica Petersen in Haiti in November 2016. No official cause-of-death record was found.