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Primary documents
- 18 U.S.C. 2706: Cost Reimbursement
Government Record
United States Code
Federal law: requires the government to repay companies for the costs of gathering and producing records demanded by legal process. It covers search and production costs,…
- 26 CFR 1.501(c)(4)-1: Social Welfare Organizations
Government Record
U.S. Treasury / IRS (regulation)
IRS regulation: a 501(c)(4) nonprofit qualifies if it is 'primarily engaged' in promoting the common good. 'Primarily' has never been defined with a number, which lets…
- 47 U.S.C. 230: Section 230
Government Record · 2020
U.S. House Office of the Law Revision Counsel (via GovInfo)
Federal law, added by the Telecommunications Act of 1996: no website or app is treated as the publisher of what its users post. Not amended as…
- 5 Ways We’re Toughening Our Approach to Protect Families on YouTube and YouTube Kids
Document · 2017
Johanna Wright, Vice President of Product Management, YouTube
YouTube's November 2017 response to disturbing videos aimed at children ("Elsagate"): over 50 channels terminated and thousands of videos removed. YouTube's own figures.
- A full breakdown of what happened at Astroworld Festival tragedy, according to Houston police
News Report · 2023
ABC13 KTRK
ABC13's breakdown of the police timeline: first distress call at 9:07 p.m., mass casualty event declared at 9:47, and the show did not end until 10:12.…
- A Paucity of Publicity for Idiocracy
News Report · 2006
NPR
NPR, September 2006: Idiocracy was quietly released in 7 cities after a year on the shelf, with no trailer and no press kit. Fox would say…
- A re-examination of the mere exposure effect: The influence of repeated exposure on recognition, familiarity, and liking
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2017
R. Matthew Montoya et al.
2017 analysis of 268 results from 81 papers: repeated exposure raises liking up to a point, then it levels off and falls.
- A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Document · 1957
Leon Festinger
Festinger defines dissonance through nonfitting relations among cognitions and proposes pressure to reduce it and avoid increases. The publisher page identifies the Stanford reissue; the text…
- A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935)
Court Filing · 1935
Supreme Court of the United States (Hughes, C.J.)
U.S. Supreme Court, May 1935, unanimous: struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act's industry codes. Congress cannot hand its lawmaking power to others. One of two…
- ABC News Defends Its Epstein Coverage After Leaked Video Of Anchor
News Report · 2019
NPR
NPR, November 2019: leaked hot-mic video of ABC anchor Amy Robach saying ABC sat on her Epstein interview for three years, and ABC's response that the…
- ABC News: FBI Confirms Laptop at Hunter Biden Gun Trial (2024)
News Report · 2024
ABC News
ABC News, June 2024: at Hunter Biden's gun trial, prosecutors showed the laptop and FBI agent Erika Jensen testified it was confirmed to be his, backed…
- Access Now: Spotify’s Emotion-Recognition Patent (2021)
Document · 2021
Access Now
Access Now, April 2021: Spotify said it never used its voice-emotion patent and has no plans to. Access Now said that is not enough and warned…
- ACLU v. Clapper: Second Circuit Opinion (2015)
Court Filing · 2015
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Justia reproduction
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, May 2015: held that Section 215 of the Patriot Act did not authorize the NSA's bulk phone records…
- Address to the Nation on Testimony Before the Independent Counsel’s Grand Jury
Government Record · 1998
William J. Clinton
President Clinton's August 17, 1998 address after testifying to the grand jury about Monica Lewinsky.
- Adidas: Terminates Partnership with Ye (2022)
Corporate Filing · 2022
adidas AG
Adidas, October 25, 2022: it ended its partnership with Ye (Kanye West) immediately and stopped Yeezy production and payments.
- Advisory Concerning CPD’s Predictive Risk Models
Government Record · 2020
City of Chicago Office of Inspector General
Chicago Inspector General, January 2020: the police department spent $3.8 million in federal grants on computer models that scored people's likelihood of being a shooter or…
- Adweek: Third Quarter Cable News Ratings (2026)
News Report · 2026
Adweek / TVNewser
Adweek, October 2026: reports Nielsen data showing CNN averaged 608,000 prime-time viewers in Q3 2026, with 101,000 aged 25 to 54. Total-day viewing averaged 426,000. Secondhand…
- Ahlan Simsim Initiative
Document · 2025
Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop's page on Ahlan Simsim, its program with the International Rescue Committee for families displaced by conflict in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
- Airbnb: Jay Carney Joins as Global Head of Policy (2022)
Corporate Filing · 2022
Airbnb
Airbnb, July 2022: hired Jay Carney, former White House press secretary for President Obama and then a senior Amazon executive, as its global head of policy…
- Alphabet: Letter to Chairman Jordan on Biden Administration Pressure (2025)
Corporate Filing · 2025
Daniel F. Donovan, counsel for Alphabet Inc.
Alphabet's counsel, September 2025: told the House Judiciary Committee that senior Biden officials pressed YouTube about content that did not break its rules, while saying the…
- Amazon Alexa Children’s Privacy Settlement: $25 Million Penalty (2023)
Government Record · 2023
U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission
Justice Department and FTC, July 2023: Amazon agreed to a $25 million penalty over keeping children's Alexa voice recordings and not honoring deletion requests. Settled, not…
- Amazon Studios Greenlights Utopia, Signs Gillian Flynn to Overall Deal
Document · 2018
Amazon Studios
Amazon Studios, April 2018: orders an American remake of Utopia from Gillian Flynn, about a "deep state" organization.
- Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta (2021)
Court Filing · 2021
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Supreme Court, July 2021, 6 to 3: struck down California's rule forcing charities to hand their major donor lists to the state attorney general, as…
- An Experimental Study of Netflix Use and the Effects of Autoplay on Watching Behaviors
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025
Brennan Schaffner; Yaretzi Ulloa; Riya Sahni; Jiatong Li; Ava Kim Cohen; Natasha Messier; Lan Gao; Marshini Chetty
Peer-reviewed experiment, 2025: when 76 Netflix users turned off autoplay, they watched about 21 fewer minutes a day and their sessions ran about 17 minutes shorter.
Books
Antifa: The Radical Left’s Shadow NetworkThe book traces Antifa from early twentieth-century European anti-fascist movements to its present form as a decentralised network, documenting its funding, its tactics, and its reception…
Awakening the Player: A Guide to Breaking Free from the NPC Mindset and Reclaiming Your Critical ThoughtThe book examines how conformity is manufactured through institutions, media, and social incentive, and what it takes to restore independent judgment once the habit of outsourcing…
Blood and Sand: Israel’s Darkest Hours – A Chronicle of Ten Horrific AtrocitiesTen documented incidents in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, presented with sources. The book covers the massacres and expulsions from the foundational period forward, and the accounts that…
Confessed Conspiracies: Top 10 Government Deceptions and the Truths That Changed HistoryTen government operations that were dismissed as conspiracy theory and later confirmed in the official record. Each one documented, dated, and sourced to the admission.
COVID-19 Plandemic: The Global Elite’s Blueprint for Humanity’s EnslavementFrom the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its gain-of-function funding through the suppression of early treatment protocols, the book documents the operational record of the pandemic…
Digital Detox: Reclaiming Humanity in the Age of Social Media ZombiesSocial platforms are engineered on the same reward mechanics as slot machines. The book covers the neuroscience of variable reinforcement, the internal research the companies conducted…
Fake News: The Art of Mind ManipulationOperation Mockingbird placed CIA assets inside American newsrooms, and the book starts there. It traces the mechanism forward through pharmaceutical advertising leverage, ownership consolidation, and the…
FEAR: The Cognitive Control Matrix – The Ultimate Mechanism to Weaponize the Mind and Enforce Mass ObedienceFear suppresses immune function and shuts down higher reasoning, and both effects are documented. The book covers the amygdala, cortisol, and dopamine mechanics that make populations…
Instinct as Resistance: The BS Meter HandbookSocial engineering works through choice architecture, media framing, and crisis timing. Working from Edward Bernays through the Club of Rome, the book documents the blueprint and…
Manufactured Heroes: The PAS Playbook – How Governments Fabricate Crises to Control, Profit, and Erode Your FreedomsProblem, Action, Solution. The book documents the pattern across the War on Drugs, the War on Terror, the COVID-19 response, and climate policy: the problem introduced…
Out of the Shadows and Into the Light: The Information War: A Battle for the Soul of AmericaDennis Schultz
The book documents the psychological techniques used to shape public opinion, drawing historical precedent forward to current practice, and covers the mechanisms by which information is…
Scripted Reality 2.0: The YouTube Matrix – The Hidden Hand Behind Your Child’s ScreenYouTube's recommendation algorithm optimises for watch time, and the book documents what that produces when the viewer is a child. Covers the content pipelines, the ideological…
Scripted Reality 3.0: The Devil’s Playlist – The Hidden Hand of Music and the Art of Cultural WarfareMusic bypasses analytical processing, and the book examines who has used that. Covers CIA involvement in the 1960s counterculture, the consolidation of the recording industry, and…
Scripted Reality: The Hidden Hand of Cinema and the Art of Predictive ProgrammingPredictive programming as a mechanism: audiences shown a future scenario in fiction, then meeting it in reality already conditioned to accept it. The book documents the…
Sealed Lips, Open Wounds: The Nakba’s Unspoken TruthThe 1948 displacement of Palestinians, the historical record of what occurred, and the mechanisms in American political, religious, and media institutions that have kept the account…
Sooo Offended! The Great American MeltdownThe book traces the shift from resilience to fragility in a single generation, examining the biological, educational, and cultural inputs behind it, and what a society…
The Alien Narrative: Fact, Fiction, or Pending False Flag?From Roswell to Area 51, the book examines how the extraterrestrial narrative has been shaped by the institutions that claim to investigate it. The question it…
The GLP-1 Deception: Pharma’s Billion-Dollar Lie and the Hidden Cost of ‘Miracle’ Weight Loss DrugsGLP-1 agonists moved from diabetes treatment to mass-market weight loss. The book covers the trial data, the muscle loss and gastroparesis signals, the regain that follows…
The Invisible Padded Cell: How a Nation Learns to Love Its CaptivityDrawing on Seligman's learned helplessness studies and Milgram's obedience trials, the book documents how populations are conditioned into passivity. Not chains or bars, but messaging, dependency,…
The Maze of Poison: Book VIIII – DTC Commercial Drugs and Pain ManagementDirect-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising and the pain management category it built.
The Obedience Test: How COVID-19 Became the Ultimate Experiment in Mass ControlWorking from declassified documents and congressional findings, the book examines the pandemic response as a compliance measurement: lockdowns, mandates, censorship, and the plexiglass theatre. It covers…
The Progressive Mind Virus: Trump Derangement Syndrome and The Erosion of Rational ThoughtThe book examines the psychological and media dynamics that followed the 2016 election, treating the reaction as a case study in how mass sentiment is generated,…
The Puppet Nation: Israel’s Shadow Empire and the Strings of ControlLobbying structures, campaign finance flows, and media relationships through which a foreign state influences American policy. The book documents the organisations, the money, and the legislative…
The Silent War on Generations: How Globalists Engineered America’s Collapse and How Gen X Can Save ItThe book examines the generational strategy behind American institutional decline, documenting the sequence through education, media, and financial policy, and argues Generation X occupies the position…
