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- Order Modifying Prior Decision and Order, In re Facebook, Inc., Docket No. C-4365
Government Record · 2020
Federal Trade Commission
This FTC order confirms that the district court entered the Facebook stipulated order on April 23, 2020.
- Order on Meta’s Motion for Summary Judgment and AG Plaintiffs’ Cross-Motion
Court Filing · 2026
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
Meta’s summary-judgment motion was denied and the AG plaintiffs’ cross-motion denied in part. The court identified material factual disputes, including COPPA compliance and alleged knowledge, rather…
- Organization Donors and Conflicts of Interest: Investigations Broaden (2010)
Document · 2010
Psychiatric Times
CHADD’s CEO reported pharmaceutical support of 26.6%, or $1,174,626, as of June 30, 2009, and described disclosures begun in 2008 and 2009. The same article reports…
- Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection and Community
Government Record · 2023
Office of the U.S. Surgeon General
The advisory reports widespread loneliness and discusses how technology may displace interaction, monopolize attention, reduce interaction quality, or foster connection. Its approximately six-hour digital-media figure concerns…
- Palantir Technologies Inc. Form S-1 Registration Statement
Corporate Filing · 2020
Palantir Technologies Inc.
The S-1 identifies Alexander Karp, Stephen Cohen, and Peter Thiel as founders and describes intelligence-community and government work. No occurrence of “In-Q-Tel” was located in the…
- Payments to Physicians (2008)
Government Record · 2008
Senator Charles E. Grassley; Congressional Record
Grassley’s oversight record describes revised disclosures by Joseph Biederman, Thomas Spencer, and Timothy Wilens and reproduces correspondence and payment-comparison tables. It documents a senatorial investigation and…
- People of the State of California et al. v. Meta Platforms, Inc., Complaint
Court Filing · 2023
Attorneys general of California and other plaintiff states
The 233-page complaint alleges that Meta maximized young users’ attention, used manipulative features, misrepresented safety, downplayed harms, and violated COPPA.
- Perkins V: Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (2018)
Government Record · 2018
115th U.S. Congress
The 2018 Perkins V law renewing federal funding for career and technical education.
- Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2015
Thomas R. Karl et al.
The updated analysis produced higher temperature trends, especially in recent decades, and did not support the claimed recent slowdown. It documents a scientific data update, not…
- Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments Financial Report to Congress: FY 2025
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
In FY 2025, FDA obligated $1,359,676,908 in user-fee funds, representing 77% of the $1,758,633,360 total obligated for the human drug review process; non-user-fee appropriations supplied 23%.
- Presidential Statement on Recent MAHA Actions Related to Psychiatric Medications (2026)
Document · 2026
John T. Walkup, President, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
AACAP responded to the 2026 MAHA actions by warning against broad messaging and supporting evidence-based individualized care. This is a professional-society response, not independent verification of…
- Protecting Critical Infrastructure from Misinformation and Disinformation
Government Record · 2022
CISA Cybersecurity Advisory Committee
The committee recommended CISA actions concerning misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation while recognizing First Amendment constraints and government’s limited speech-regulation role. It documents proposed government activity, not…
- Protecting Kids Online: Facebook, Instagram, and Mental Health Harm
Transcript · 2021
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
S. Hrg. 117-719 records questioning of Antigone Davis. Senators alleged concealment and growth-over-safety priorities; Davis disputed those characterizations and emphasized research limitations and results favorable to…
- Protecting Kids Online: Instagram and Reforms for Young Users
Transcript · 2021
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Adam Mosseri, witness
Mosseri defended Instagram’s potential benefits and called for industry-wide standards while senators questioned internal research and teen safety.
- Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower
Transcript · 2021
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Frances Haugen testified that Facebook’s products harmed children and that leadership knew how to make them safer. Later questioning characterized the internal research as finding body-image…
- Public School Administration: A Statement of the Fundamental Principles Underlying the Organization and Administration of Public Education
Document · 1916
Ellwood P. Cubberley
Cubberley directly compares schools to factories and children to raw products shaped for social demands. The original wording is raw products and includes the qualifier in…
- Recess physical activity and school-related social factors in Finnish primary and lower secondary schools: cross-sectional associations
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2014
Henri L. Haapala et al.
The Finnish field study reports usually two to four recesses of 10–15 minutes after 45–90-minute lessons, but expressly says recess length is not nationally regulated.
- Reduced gray matter volume in smartphone addiction: A voxel-based morphometry study
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2020
J. Horvath et al.
The cross-sectional MRI study compared 22 adults identified with smartphone addiction with 26 controls. Participants were aged 18–30.
- Report on the Surveillance Program Operated Pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Government Record · 2014
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
PCLOB describes compelled directives to providers for communications associated with tasked selectors, not unrestricted government access directly into company servers. Section 702 does not require individualized…
- Report on the Telephone Records Program Conducted under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act and on the Operations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Government Record · 2014
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
PCLOB recommended ending the Section 215 bulk telephone-records program, while two members did not favor discontinuation before an adequate alternative existed.
- Republished study: long-term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2014
Gilles-Eric Séralini et al.
The retracted article was republished with an editor’s note explaining the purpose of republication. Republication was not independent replication, validation, or a finding that the original…
- Restoring Study 329: efficacy and harms of paroxetine and imipramine in treatment of major depression in adolescence (2015)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2015
Joanna Le Noury et al.
The independent RIAT team reanalyzed the same 275-participant trial using the protocol, clinical study report, appendices, individual-participant data, and case report forms. It found no efficacy…
- Review of Selected Los Angeles Police Department Data-Driven Policing Strategies
Government Record · 2019
Los Angeles Police Commission, Office of the Inspector General
The Inspector General describes Palantir as an integration and visualization platform in a critical review of LAPD data-driven policing. It cautions against strong causal conclusions from…
- RFK Jr.’s Health Report Shows How AI Slips Fake Studies Into Research (2025)
Document · 2025
PolitiFact / Poynter Institute
PolitiFact reported seven problematic citations and described replacements and wording changes in the updated report. It also reported expert concern about possible AI-generated citations, not a…