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- Webseed and Brighteon v. Department of State: Complaint (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
Webseed, Inc. and Brighteon Media, Inc.
Webseed and Brighteon Media, May 2024: the Natural News and Brighteon companies sued the State Department, NGOs and platforms, alleging government-funded blacklisting by NewsGuard, ISD and…
- Webseed v. Department of State: Magistrate Recommends Transfer (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
Magistrate Judge Dustin M. Howell, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
Magistrate Judge Dustin Howell, federal court in Texas, February 2025: recommended granting Google, Meta and X's motions to move the Brighteon case to the Northern District…
- Webseed v. Department of State: Order Denying Reconsideration (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, October 2026: refused to let the plaintiffs seek reconsideration of the dismissal and kept the October 28, 2026 deadline for amended complaints. Later…
- Webseed v. Department of State: Order Granting Motions to Dismiss (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, federal court in California, September 2026: dismissed the Brighteon case and a related case for lack of standing, ruled claims against the closed…
- Webseed v. Department of State: Order Transferring Case to California (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
Judge Robert Pitman, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
Judge Robert Pitman, federal court in Texas, April 2025: overruled the plaintiffs' objections and moved the entire Brighteon case to the Northern District of California. A…
- WEF: Cellular Agriculture, a Climate-Friendly Answer to Food Demands?
Document
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum page: cites a McKinsey forecast that cultured meat could reach cost parity by 2030. It discusses the technology and market, not any requirement…
- WEF: Interview with Klaus Schwab Ahead of China Meeting (2016)
Document · 2016
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum, 2016: an interview with Klaus Schwab about the Fourth Industrial Revolution and China. It contains no praise of China's one-child policy, and no…
- WEF: The Science Behind Cultured Meat Production
Document
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum page: cites McKinsey that cultured meat could be a $25 billion market by 2030 if it reaches price parity and buyers accept it.…
- WEF: What If We Get Things Right? Visions for 2030 (2020)
Document · 2020
World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum, 2020: presents its 2030 essays as imagined futures and says each reflects the author's views, not the Forum's. The Forum's own framing of…
- WHA78.1: WHO Pandemic Agreement Text (2025)
Document · 2025
World Health Assembly
World Health Assembly, May 2025: the adopted Pandemic Agreement reaffirms national sovereignty and says WHO has no authority to direct national laws or to mandate travel…
- What Spotify took from us by giving us everything
News Report · 2025
Elizabeth Lopatto; The Verge
The Verge, January 2025, on Liz Pelly's reporting: by 2023 over 100 official Spotify playlists were made almost entirely of cheap stock music Spotify called Perfect…
- What we know about the Taylor Swift Pentagon psy-op conspiracy theory
News Report · 2024
Task and Purpose
Task and Purpose, January 2024: presenter Alicia Bargar said she had no connection to the Pentagon and that Swift was only an example in her talk.…
- When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World
Document · 1956
Leon Festinger, Henry W. Riecken, and Stanley Schachter
The book examines how committed believers respond to failed predictions and specifies conditions under which disconfirmation may produce renewed conviction and proselytizing. It is a case…
- White House Press Briefing by Jen Psaki (July 16, 2021)
Government Record · 2021
The White House; American Presidency Project transcript
White House briefing, July 16, 2021: Press Secretary Psaki said the White House raised trends with platforms through direct channels but that the companies decide who…
- White House Press Briefing with Surgeon General Murthy (2021)
Government Record · 2021
The White House
White House briefing, July 15, 2021: Surgeon General Murthy asked tech companies to act against misinformation super-spreaders. The briefing does not name Natural News, Brighteon or…
- WHO: Assembly Adopts Pandemic Agreement (2025)
Document · 2025
World Health Organization
World Health Organization, May 20, 2025: announces that the World Health Assembly adopted the Pandemic Agreement. Adoption comes before signing, ratification and entry into force.
- WHO: Pandemic Agreement Status Update (2026)
Document · 2026
World Health Organization
World Health Organization, October 12, 2026: says the pathogen-sharing annex is still unfinished, so the Pandemic Agreement is not yet open for signature or ratification and…
- WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder Video Release (2010)
Document · 2010
WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks, April 2010: released a classified U.S. military video of a 2007 attack in New Baghdad that killed over a dozen people, including two Reuters staff,…
- WIRED: Dark Money Group Secretly Funding Democratic Influencers (2025)
News Report · 2025
Taylor Lorenz
WIRED, August 2025: after reviewing contracts and private chats, reports that Chorus, described as a Sixteen Thirty Fund project, paid Democratic-aligned influencers, some as little as…
- Wired: Grimes Is Ready to Be a Self-Replicating Pop Star (2023)
News Report · 2023
Wired
Wired, August 2023: Grimes on AI, wanting to be "a self-replicating pop star," AI companions for children, and saying she would "probably" get a Neuralink implant…
- WIRED: The FBI Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out (2025)
News Report · 2025
WIRED
WIRED, July 2025: metadata showed the FBI's "raw" Epstein jail video had been edited from clips, and one clip was nearly three minutes longer than what…
- Word Histories: Origin of the Streisand Effect (2019)
Document · 2019
Word Histories
Word Histories, March 2019: quotes Mike Masnick's January 5, 2005 Techdirt post that named "the Streisand Effect." A secondhand quote of the original post. It does…
- X: About Reduced-Reach Enforcement (2026)
Corporate Filing
X Corp.
X Corp.: its current policy explains reduced-reach enforcement, limiting how widely rule-breaking posts are shown and found. The company's own account.
- X: Our Approach to Enforcement (2026)
Corporate Filing
X Corp.
X Corp.: its current enforcement policy says it may restrict the reach of rule-breaking posts by making them less discoverable in search, trends, recommendations and timelines,…