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- 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.