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- CRS R44974: Ethics Pledges and Other Executive Branch Appointee Restrictions
Government Record · 2025
Congressional Research Service
Congressional Research Service, updated April 2025: explains the back-and-forth of presidential ethics pledges limiting revolving-door moves, including President Trump revoking the Biden ethics pledge on January…
- CRS Report R48023: TikTok Questions and Issues for Congress (2025)
Government Record · 2025
Congressional Research Service
Congressional Research Service, February 2025: summarizes reports of TikTok's political moderation and of ByteDance staff in China accessing U.S. data, alongside TikTok's denial that it ever…
- CRS: Tax-Exempt Organizations Under IRC Section 501(c), Political Activity Restrictions
Government Record · 2025
Congressional Research Service
Congressional Research Service, updated January 2025: explains the political activity limits on nonprofits and that, since a 2020 IRS rule, 501(c)(4) groups do not report donor…
- Daily Wire v. Department of State: Consent Decree (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
Parties before Judge Jeremy D. Kernodle, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
Judge Jeremy Kernodle, federal court in Texas, April 2026: approved a consent decree barring the State Department from using electronic tools to knowingly suppress or downgrade…
- DARPA: Narrative Networks Program
Government Record · 2011
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARPA's own description of its Narrative Networks program, launched around 2011 to study how stories affect the brain, emotion and behavior, and to apply that in…
- Demolition Man (1993): AFI catalog record
Document · 1993
AFI Catalog
AFI catalog record: Demolition Man released October 8, 1993. The notes document the Taco Bell restaurant tie-in, swapped to Pizza Hut for some overseas versions.
- Department of Homeland Security—Application of an Appropriations Act Prohibition and the Antideficiency Act to the Disinformation Governance Board, B-334308
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Government Accountability Office
GAO concluded that DHS lacked statutory authority to create the Board and violated section 513 and the Antideficiency Act when the Secretary signed the charter. The…
- Determination on Serious Professional Misconduct and Sanction: Dr Andrew Jeremy Wakefield
Document · 2010
GMC Fitness to Practise Panel
Following its findings, the GMC panel determined that Wakefield had engaged in serious professional misconduct and directed erasure from the medical register.
- DHS Disinformation Governance Board Charter (signed charter within Senate document production)
Government Record · 2022
Department of Homeland Security; signed by Alejandro N. Mayorkas
The signed charter created a coordinating and governance body; DHS components retained operational response roles. The accompanying DHS response says the Board had no operational mandate…
- Disclosures 101 for Social Media Influencers
Government Record · 2019
Federal Trade Commission
The FTC's plain-language guide for influencers: if you are paid or have a relationship with a brand, you have to make that obvious in the post.
- Dispatch 1035-960: Countering Criticism of the Warren Report
Government Record · 1967
Central Intelligence Agency, Chief of CA Staff
The dispatch directs assets to counter and discredit Warren Report critics and recommends book reviews and feature articles. It does not establish that CIA coined conspiracy…
- Ditto Music: How Much Spotify Pays Per Stream (2026)
Document · 2026
Ditto Music
Ditto Music: Spotify pays about $0.003 to $0.005 per stream on average, an estimate that varies by country, subscription and distributor.
- DNI Statement on Activities Authorized Under Section 702 of FISA
Government Record · 2013
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
The Director of National Intelligence, June 6, 2013: says Section 702 is for collecting foreign intelligence on non-Americans outside the U.S. The agency's own description.
- DNI Statement on Recent Unauthorized Disclosures of Classified Information
Government Record · 2013
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
The Director of National Intelligence, June 6, 2013, the day after the Snowden leak: confirms the court-ordered collection of Americans' phone records, while saying it does…
- DoD IG: Audit of Trailblazer and ThinThread Requirements (2004)
Government Record · 2004
Department of Defense Office of Inspector General
Pentagon Inspector General, December 2004: listing for its audit of the NSA's Trailblazer and ThinThread systems, released in redacted form. Only the listing page was opened,…
- DoD Inspector General: Army General Fund Adjustments Not Adequately Documented (2016)
Government Record · 2016
Department of Defense Office of Inspector General
Pentagon Inspector General, July 2016: found $6.5 trillion in Army accounting adjustments for fiscal 2015 alone that were not supported by documentation. The Pentagon calls these…
- DoD Inspector General: The FY 2025 Financial Statement Audit Explained (2026)
Government Record · 2025
Department of Defense Office of Inspector General
Pentagon Inspector General, 2026: the Department of Defense failed its eighth straight audit in fiscal 2025, with auditors unable to give an opinion and 26 material…
- DoD Instruction 5410.16: DoD Assistance to Non-Government, Entertainment-Oriented Media Productions
Government Record · 2015
U.S. Department of Defense
The Pentagon's rules for helping movies and TV: assistance is tied to script review, and the Defense Department can suggest script changes needed to get its…
- Doe v. Google and YouTube: Complaint (2020)
Court Filing · 2020
Plaintiffs John Doe and others
Plaintiffs in Doe v. Google and YouTube, October 2020: a federal complaint alleging YouTube told a user on October 15, 2020 that SGT Report channels were…
- DOJ Inspector General: Review of FBI Richmond Catholic Memo (2024)
Government Record · 2024
Michael E. Horowitz, DOJ Office of Inspector General
DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, April 2024: a limited review found no one directed analysts to link extremism to any religion, and no steps beyond database…
- DOJ Sues Live Nation-Ticketmaster for Monopolization (2024)
Government Record · 2024
U.S. Department of Justice
Justice Department, May 23, 2024: sued Live Nation and Ticketmaster, with 30 state and district attorneys general, for monopolizing the live concert industry. Allegations in a…
- DOJ Weaponization Working Group: FBI Richmond Memo Report (2026)
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Department of Justice Weaponization Working Group
DOJ Weaponization Working Group, August 2026: says agents made extensive inquiries into two priests, monitored travel and communications, and found no link to crime or extremism;…
- DOJ: 2026 Report on Weaponization Against Parents in Schools (2026)
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Department of Justice Weaponization Working Group
DOJ Weaponization Working Group, October 2026: says the FBI opened school-board threat investigations, repeats whistleblower claims about parents, and notes Bondi rescinded Garland's memo in February…
- DOJ: Assange Charged in 18-Count Superseding Indictment (2019)
Government Record · 2019
U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs
U.S. Justice Department, May 2019: a grand jury charged Assange in an 18-count superseding indictment over the leak of classified information. These were allegations, not convictions.…