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- Twitter: Setting the Record Straight on Shadow Banning (2018)
Corporate Filing · 2018
Twitter Inc.
Twitter, July 2018: denied shadow banning, defined narrowly as hiding content from everyone but the poster without their knowledge. It admitted ranking tweets and search results…
- U.S. Attorney: Purdue Frederick and Executives Plead Guilty Over OxyContin (2007)
Government Record · 2007
U.S. Attorney John L. Brownlee, Western District of Virginia
U.S. Attorney John Brownlee, Western District of Virginia, May 2007: Purdue Frederick pleaded guilty to felony misbranding of OxyContin with intent to defraud or mislead, and…
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Minnesota Advisory Committee: Radio Consolidation
Government Record · 2003
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights / Minnesota Advisory Committee
Minnesota Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2003: after the 1996 Act, the number of commercial radio owners fell by about 1,700, a…
- U.S. Credit Markets Interconnectedness and the Effects of the COVID-19 Economic Shock
Government Record · 2020
SEC Division of Economic and Risk Analysis research staff
DERA attributes selling pressure to demand for safety and liquidity, a dash for cash, margin calls, collateral haircuts, deleveraging, and market interconnectedness. It does not attribute…
- U.S. Cross-border Tax Reform and the Cautionary Tale of GILTI
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2021
Erica York
Tax Foundation, 2021: argues GILTI's foreign-asset break gives only limited tax benefits and does not necessarily pull investment overseas. A think-tank view.
- U.S. Fire Administration: Maui Police Preliminary After-Action Report (2024)
Government Record · 2024
U.S. Fire Administration summary of Maui Police Department preliminary report
U.S. Fire Administration: summary of the Maui police preliminary after-action report, with 32 recommendations on the police response.
- U.S. Multinational Companies: Operations of U.S. Parents and Their Foreign Affiliates in 2010
Government Record · 2012
Kevin B. Barefoot, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Economic Analysis, 2012: U.S. multinationals' share of their workforce employed in the U.S. fell from 75.2 percent in 1999 to 67.3 percent in 2010,…
- U.S. Right to Know: American Council on Science and Health
Document · 2023
U.S. Right to Know (usrtk.org)
U.S. Right to Know, an advocacy group, 2023: compiles funding records showing the American Council on Science and Health took money from tobacco, chemical, food and…
- U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing: Industry Trends, Global Competition, Federal Policy (NIST AMS 100-49)
Government Record · 2022
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST, 2022: the U.S. share of global chip-making capacity fell from 37 percent in 1990 to 12 percent in 2020, and Taiwan held 92 percent of…
- U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000 (PNTR), Public Law 106-286
Government Record · 2000
U.S. Congress
The U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000: Congress granted China permanent normal trade relations (PNTR), effective when China joined the WTO. President Clinton signed it October 10,…
- UC San Diego: Researcher Links Diplomats’ Illness to Microwave Radiation (2018)
Document · 2018
University of California San Diego
UC San Diego, 2018: announced Golomb's study linking diplomats' illness to microwave radiation, which was done without funding.
- UN Commission of Inquiry: Legal Analysis of Genocide, A/HRC/60/CRP.3 (2025)
Document · 2025
UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel
UN Commission of Inquiry, September 2025: concludes there are "reasonable grounds to conclude" Israel committed genocidal acts in Gaza from October 2023 to July 2025, finding…
- UN Global Sustainable Development Report 2019
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Independent Group of Scientists appointed by the UN Secretary-General
The UN scientists' 2019 report calls governance an essential lever of the systemic transformations needed to reach all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
- UN News: Beirut Port Explosion Investigation Advances (2026)
News Report · 2026
United Nations News
UN News, August 2026 (French): Judge Tarek Bitar closed the Beirut port investigation in spring 2026 and sent the file to prosecutors. No trial date yet.
- UN Panel of Experts on Yemen: Final Report on the Abqaiq Attack (2020)
Document · 2020
Panel of Experts on Yemen
UN Panel of Experts on Yemen, January 2020: the 2019 attack on Saudi Aramco's Abqaiq oil facility used drones and cruise missiles, and the Houthis were…
- UN Special Rapporteur on Torture: Report Addendum on Manning (2012)
Document · 2012
Juan E. Méndez, United Nations Special Rapporteur
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez, March 2012: concluded that seriously punitive detention conditions for someone not yet found guilty violated Manning's rights and presumption…
- Underminer Program Demonstrates Feasibility of Rapid Tunnel Construction (DARPA)
Government Record · 2022
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARPA's 2022 release saying Underminer demonstrated rapid tactical tunneling and moved to partners. It does not say whether the 1,200-feet-per-hour target was reached.
- Underminer: Rapid Creation of Tactical Tunnel Networks (DARPA)
Government Record · 2020
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DARPA's 2020 announcement of Underminer, a program to build military tunnel networks fast with drilling, boring and robotics.
- UNDRR: The Beirut Explosion Could Have Been Prevented (2020)
Document · 2020
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction: the 2020 Beirut explosion was 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored at the port for six years without safety measures.
- UNESCO: Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology (2025)
Government Record · 2025
UNESCO
UNESCO's 2025 recommendation says collecting, processing, changing or sharing neural data should require prior, free and informed consent.
- Unified Code of Corrections, 730 ILCS 5/5-4.5-45
Government Record · 2026
Illinois General Assembly
The ordinary Class 4 determinate imprisonment range is one to three years, subject to other statutory provisions and sentencing circumstances.
- Union Members — 2025
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics: union membership fell from 20.1 percent of workers (17.7 million) in 1983 to 10.0 percent (14.7 million) in 2025.
- United Nations Legal Identity Agenda (SDG 16.9)
Government Record · 2015
United Nations Statistics Division
The UN goal to provide legal identity for all, including birth registration, by 2030.
- United States Army Annual Financial Statement, Fiscal Year 2001
Government Record
Department of the Army
The Army's own financial report for fiscal 2001, the year after Rumsfeld's $2.3 trillion speech. It states that because of the September 11 attacks, the Army…