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- Federal Reserve Act Section 5: Reserve Bank Stock Rules
Government Record
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Act, Section 5: member banks hold stock in their regional Reserve Bank, and those shares cannot be sold, transferred or pledged. The stock is…
- Federal Reserve Banks: Combined Financial Statements (2025)
Government Record · 2026
Federal Reserve Banks; audited by KPMG LLP
Federal Reserve Banks, March 2026, audited by KPMG: the 2025 financial statements explain that the banks send excess earnings to the Treasury weekly and pause when…
- Federal Reserve Beige Book: Taylor Swift Concerts Boost Philadelphia Hotels (2023)
Government Record · 2023
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Beige Book, July 2023: a Philadelphia business contact said May was the best month for hotel revenue since the pandemic, largely because of the…
- Final Interim Recommendation of the Disinformation Best Practices and Safeguards Subcommittee
Government Record · 2022
Homeland Security Advisory Council
The advisory subcommittee recommended against retaining the Board while separately discussing best practices and safeguards for DHS work addressing disinformation.
- FISC Order to Verizon Business Network Services: Production of Call Detail Records (April 2013)
Court Filing · 2013
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; Judge Roger Vinson
The secret April 2013 court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call records daily, including calls entirely inside the U.S.
- Fitness to Practise Panel Hearing: Dr Andrew Jeremy Wakefield, Findings of Fact
Document · 2010
GMC Fitness to Practise Panel
The panel made findings concerning dishonesty, undisclosed interests, ethical approval, and clinically unsupported procedures. It expressly did not decide whether MMR vaccination is linked to autism.
- Following HSAC Recommendation, DHS Terminates Disinformation Governance Board
Government Record · 2022
Department of Homeland Security
DHS announced that the Board was terminated and its charter rescinded following the advisory council’s recommendation.
- Ford Library: Rockefeller Commission File on Project Mockingbird
Government Record · 1963
U.S. President’s Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States records
The Rockefeller Commission's file on Project Mockingbird: the CIA tapped the phones of two Washington reporters in 1963 to find their sources of classified information. It…
- Former Intelligence Officials: Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails (2020)
Document · 2020
Former intelligence officials; letter hosted by Politico
Former intelligence officials, October 2020: a letter saying the Hunter Biden emails had the "classic earmarks" of a Russian information operation, while stating they did not…
- Fox Corporation Fiscal 2026 Form 10-K (2026)
Corporate Filing · 2026
Fox Corporation
Fox annual report for fiscal 2026, filed August 2026: lists Fox News Media, Fox Sports, Tubi, Fox Entertainment and Fox Television Stations. The company's own filing.
- FRED: M2 Money Stock Data Series
Government Record
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System via FRED
FRED, Federal Reserve data: the M2 money supply was $15,492.8 billion in February 2020 and peaked at $21,770.7 billion in March 2022, an increase of about…
- Free Press: Twitter Files on Secret Suppression, Congressional Copy (2022)
News Report · 2022
Free Press; reproduced for the Congressional Record
The Free Press, December 2022, reprinted in a congressional hearing record: internal Twitter material describes visibility filtering as a powerful tool to suppress what people see,…
- FTC and New York v. Google LLC and YouTube LLC: Complaint (2019)
Court Filing · 2019
Federal Trade Commission; People of the State of New York
The FTC and New York complaint against Google and YouTube. It says YouTube pitched itself to toy makers Mattel and Hasbro as the top destination to…
- FTC and New York v. Google LLC and YouTube LLC: Stipulated Order (2019)
Court Filing · 2019
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
The court order settling the FTC's YouTube case. Google and YouTube neither admitted nor denied the allegations, paid the penalty, and agreed to build a system…
- FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter: Dissent on the Facebook Settlement (2019)
Court Filing · 2019
Federal Trade Commission (Slaughter, R.K., Commissioner)
FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, July 2019: dissented, saying the FTC should have gone to court instead of settling and that the release of claims was…
- FTC Says Ring Employees Illegally Surveilled Customers, Failed to Stop Hackers Taking Control of Users’ Cameras
Government Record · 2023
Federal Trade Commission
FTC, May 2023: Ring agreed to pay $5.8 million to settle charges that it let employees spy on customers' private videos and failed to stop hackers.
- FTC Takes Action Against General Motors for Sharing Drivers’ Precise Location and Driving Behavior Data Without Consent
Government Record · 2025
Federal Trade Commission
FTC, January 2025: action against General Motors and OnStar for selling drivers' precise location and driving behavior, sometimes every 3 seconds, without proper consent. Proposed settlement.
- FTC: $5 Billion Penalty and Privacy Restrictions on Facebook (2019)
Government Record · 2019
Federal Trade Commission
FTC, July 2019: announced a $5 billion penalty and new privacy order against Facebook after Cambridge Analytica, approved 3 to 2 along party lines. The FTC's…
- FTC: Google Agrees to Change Business Practices (2013)
Government Record · 2013
Federal Trade Commission
FTC, January 2013: closed its 19-month investigation of Google's search practices with only voluntary commitments, saying 'the evidence collected to date did not justify legal action.'…
- FTC: Letter to Facebook and WhatsApp on Privacy Promises (2014)
Government Record · 2014
Jessica L. Rich, Director, FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection
FTC consumer protection chief Jessica Rich, April 2014: as Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion, warned both companies that WhatsApp must keep its privacy promises to…
- FTC: Statement of the Commission on Google’s Search Practices (2013)
Government Record · 2013
Federal Trade Commission
FTC commissioners, January 2013: their reasons for closing the Google search case, saying Google's changes could be seen as product improvements for users.
- Gallup: Trust in Media at New Low of 28% (2025)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025
Gallup
Gallup, October 2025: trust in mass media hit a new low, with 28% having a great deal or fair amount of trust in newspapers, TV and…
- Gallup: Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low (2024)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2024
Gallup
Gallup, October 2024: 31% of Americans had a great deal or fair amount of trust in mass media, similar to 32% in 2023.
- Gallup: Trust in Media Remains Near Record Low (2022)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2022
Gallup
Gallup, October 2022: 7% of Americans had a great deal of trust in mass media and 27% a fair amount, 34% combined. So the claim that…