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Conservative Propaganda

1967

1967-01-01 Operation Mockingbird was an alleged wiretapping effort to influence domestic and foreign news media for propaganda purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mockingbird

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/killing-a-mockingbird-what-is-operation-mockingbird-and-how-it-was-used-to-manipulate-the-press-and-spread-propaganda/articleshow/123044537.cms

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-10-02/From-CIA-s-Mockingbird-to-lie-of-the-century-U-S-hasn-t-changed-1nzdn0ZiMrS/index.html

1971

1971-08-03 Virginian corporate attorney Lewis Powell wrote a confidential 8-page memo “Attack on American Free Enterprise System” outlining efforts for corporations to take over universities and media. He was later nominated by Nixon to the US Supreme Court in 1972. He sat on the Phillips-Morris board and argued cigarettes did not cause cancer.

https://www.inequalitymedia.org/explainers/v/the-powell-memo

https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/powellmemo.html

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klVyGr3rnAE&list=WL&index=2&t=155s

1988

1988-01-01 Canon Press founder Doug Wilson tried to buy Christianity Today.

https://baptistnews.com/article/the-bizarre-story-of-doug-wilson-attempting-to-buy-christianity-today/

https://julieroys.com/christianity-today-rejects-10-million-buy-out-offer-by-doug-wilson-affiliated-publisher/?

2004

2004-10-28 The Center for Public Integrity reported that more than 95% of Sinclair Broadcasting Group’s contributions go to Republicans.

https://publicintegrity.org/inequality-poverty-opportunity/sinclair-flap-proves-exception-to-the-rule/

2006

2006-04-01 A research study found that Republicans gain points in districts that broadcast Fox News.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w12169

2010

2010-06-01 James O’Keefe founded far-right group Project Veritas, which is notorious for fabricating “gotcha” material against political opposition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/project-veritas-james-okeefe-rise-fall-1235036748/

https://yaf.org/people/james-okeefe/

https://www.cta.org/educator/posts/uninvited-guests-project-veritas-caught-trying-to-crash-state-council

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/29/us/politics/project-veritas-ilhan-omar.html

https://time.com/4536212/james-okeefe-project-veritas-video-democrats/

2016

2016-01-01 A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower revealed harvested Facebook data was used by Trump’s 2016 campaign to build psychographic voter profiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal

https://committees.parliament.uk/work/6330/disinformation-and-fake-news/news/103673/evidence-from-christopher-wylie-cambridge-analytica-whistleblower-published/

https://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/fake-news/oral/79388.pdf

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/10/599808766/i-m-responsible-for-what-happens-at-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-will-tell-senate

2018

2018-02-16 After LeBron James and Kevin Durant criticized conditions under Trump’s leadership, Fox News host Laura Ingraham told James to “shut up and dribble.”

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/19/587097707/laura-ingraham-told-lebron-james-to-shutup-and-dribble-he-went-to-the-hoop

2018-03-08 An MIT study concluded that social media was designed to spread lies six times faster and is incentivized to go viral when laced with anger, fear or hate.

https://news.mit.edu/2018/study-twitter-false-news-travels-faster-true-stories-0308

2019

2019-01-01 Alt-right women’s magazine Evie was founded by the Hugoboom family. Its 2024 cover featured “Ballerina Farm” and “The Importance of Being Sexy,” promoting the trad-wife movement. Hugoboom also launched the “Toxic Breakup” supplement, marketed to “detox the body” after stopping birth control. In 2022, the owners launched a menstrual-tracking app funded by Peter Thiel that drew controversy for its pro-life rhetoric.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evie_Magazine

https://www.wired.com/story/burnt-hair-and-soft-power-a-night-out-with-evie-magazine/

https://www.wsj.com/style/fashion/evie-magazine-a-conservative-cosmo-meets-the-cultural-moment-8045390f

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/evie-magazine-brittany-hugoboom?srsltid=AfmBOoq-9TzBohGDDYOva4nuKs9EDsBy8hJk87DUzbgnFUEWueJ69ANY

https://28.co/shop/toxic-breakup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-Hsh1B2TA&list=WL&index=2

2020

2020-05-27 Trump wrote, “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that…happen again. Just like we can’t let large scale Mail-in Ballots take root in our country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery, and theft of Ballots. Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!”.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-threatens-close-social-media-platforms-twitter-fact/story?id=70899912

2022

2022-01-01 Blue Check verification can be bought on X, and since then research has shown a significant increase in hate speech.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-blue-check-verification-ending-new-subscription-april-1-elon-musk/#:~:text=Twitter%20is%20officially%20ending%20its,U.S.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/13/study-finds-persistent-spike-in-hate-speech-on-x/

2022-01-01 PragerU announced they would “go toe-to-toe” with PBS Kids and Disney to promote conservative-only content.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/5sXDznmT78abPArUAlPCqE/1fedef81bdb19e99a78ab3228b5393ac/2022_AnnualReport_Final_Optimized.pdf

2022-05-01 Allegedly Larry Ellison participated in a conference call after the 2020 election focusing on strategies for challenging the legitimacy of the vote. The call included members such as Sean Hannity, Lindsey Graham, Jay Sekulow, James Bopp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/oracles-ellison-joined-nov-2020-call-about-contesting-trumps-defeat-2022-05-20/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/billionaire-larry-ellison-reportedly-participated-211805216.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-oracle-discussed-challenging-2020-election-trump-loss-report-2022-5

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/841361/oracles-larry-ellison-joined-call-contesting-trump-election-loss-report/

2023 February

2023-02-16 In a $1.6B defamation lawsuit between U.S. Dominion v. Fox News Network, Sean Hannity, Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson allegedly did not find election fraud claims fully credible or found them “crazy” but reported election fraud claims anyways.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fox-news-hosts-2020-election-fraud-claims-dominion-defamation-suit/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/03/07/fox-news-lawsuit/

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/17/fox-news-hosts-dominion-lawsuit-trump-election-fraud-tucker-carlson-sean-hannity-laura-ingraham

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RuPvv0maCQ&list=WL&index=7

2023 March

2023-03-29 Governor Ron DeSantis and his allies initiated a “hostile takeover” of New College of Florida as part of a political campaign.

https://www.whathappenedtonewcollege.org/

https://apnews.com/article/desantis-new-college-florida-woke-timeline-5a5bcd78230ddd2a1adb8021fea8a755

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFMc07F1UUU&list=WL&index=9&t=7s

2023 October

2023-10-01 Israel reportedly launched a multi-million-dollar global propaganda campaign, paid influencers to say positive things about Israel, and funded tours for MAGA and pro-Trump influencers. In November 2025 FARA (Foreign Agents Registration Act) filed complaints against the Israeli government.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/30/spinning-genocide-how-israel-is-using-us-pr-firms-to-frame-its-gaza-war#:~:text=Bridges%20Partners%20is%20a%20Christian%20public%20relations,become%20the%20source%20of%20an%20online%20meme.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influencers/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-hasbara-directorate-being-sued-unpaid-activists-claiming-millions

2023-10-16 The Daily Wire launched Bentkey, a children’s streaming service offering explicitly conservative indoctrination to children.

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/16/daily-wire-streaming-kids-bentkey-disney

2024 September

2024-09-04 Russian money was funneled to right-wing creators.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/russian-money-was-funneled-right-wing-creators-trump-media-outlet-pros-rcna169611

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/internets-popular-trump-pundits-ended-paid-messengers-russian-propagan-rcna169803

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/well-known-right-wing-influencers-duped-to-work-for-covert-russian-operation-u-s-prosecutors-say

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/well-known-right-wing-influencers-duped-to-work-for-covert-russian-operation-u-s-prosecutors-say

2024-09-11 Trump was recorded on Fox News requesting preferred anchors for the debate.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-insults-fox-news-anchors-163830353.html

2024 October

2024-10-07 Pro Israel groups including Canary Mission peddled conspiracies on social media that Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil helped plan Hamas attacks. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt also alleged Khalil distributed fliers with a Hamas logo. On March 8 2025 the Trump administration arrested him and shipped him to Louisiana.

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5356481/mahmoud-khalil-dhs-evidence-detained-palestinian-protests-columbia-antisemitism

2024-10-07 The Heritage Foundation developed Project Esther to “help combat antisemitism”, but some believe the façade of antisemitism is covering up the true attempt to crack down on activism, create censorship, control speech, and an effort to diminish humanitarian rights.

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/whats-project-esther/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/31/what-is-project-esther-the-playbook-against-pro-palestine-movement-in-us

https://ca.cair.com/updates/project-esther-a-dangerous-blueprint-for-censoring-palestine/

https://www.heritage.org/progressivism/report/project-esther-national-strategy-combat-antisemitism

2024-10-20 Bari Weiss said about Columbia University protests, “Those students were holding these janitors hostage at [Columbia University].” Weiss said. “How can that be construed as being on the side of social justice, I will never know. But first, what I would say is to enforce the law on all of the students … that destroyed property.” Her media company Free Press also features articles claiming the starvation in Gaza isn’t really happening.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2024/10/bari-weiss-mitch-daniels-discuss-state-of-free-speech-on-college-campuses

2024 November

2024-11-05 Kenneth Copeland frequently meddled in elections, ordering the viewers of his America Stands organization on how to vote.

https://americastands.govictory.com/

2024 December

2024-12-12 Trump named Kari Lake director of Voice of America.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/trump-kari-lake-director-voice-america-donors-ambassadors/story?id=116709798

2025 January

2025-01-13 Prediction market Kalshi named Donald Trump Jr. as their paid advisor.

https://news.kalshi.com/p/donald-trump-jr-strategic-advisor

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/kalshi-and-polymarket-congress-regulation-washington-influence.html

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oQdttmT5rb0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8F2z0_Qedk

SUB WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-prediction-markets.html

2025 February

2025-02-22 Lara Trump scored her own opinion segment on Fox.

https://www.foxnews.com/shows/my-view

2025 July

2025-07-07 Paramount and Skydance announced a merger.

https://ir.paramount.com/news-releases/news-release-details/skydance-media-and-paramount-global-sign-definitive-agreement

2025-07-24 Trump signed off on an $8.4B merger between Paramount and Skydance.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypylq0vnko

2025-07-24 Senators requested an investigation into corruption and bribery related to the Paramount megamerger.

https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-on-trump-administration-approving-paramount-megamerger-bribery-is-illegal-no-matter-who-is-president#:~:text=Warren%20on%20Trump%20Administration%20Approving,Wyden%20(D%2DOre.)

2025 August

2025-08-08 PragerU announced plans to totally replace PBS with conservative programming for children. Some example material includes:

  1. Who’s behind the anti-ICE riots

  2. How Foreign aid keeps Africa poor

  3. Laughter on Lockdown featuring Roseanne Barr

  4. Their Lives Mattered - a spin off the Black Lives Matter movement

  5. MIA: Masculinity in America

  6. Why do you hate conservatives

  7. And an artificially generated AI version of John Adams who tells children, “Facts do not care about your feelings”.

  8. The quote “Facts do not care about your feelings” comes from right-wing influencer and propagandist Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro, who accuses public schools of being “almost designed to be anti-Catholic indoctrination centers”.

https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/422812/prageru-education-pbs-npr-cpb-defunding

https://prospect.org/2025/08/15/2025-08-15-prageru-wants-to-capitalize-on-pbs-defunding

https://www.youtube.com/@PragerU/videos

https://www.pbs.org/video/prageru-1757971049/

https://x.com/benshapiro/status/695638866993115136

https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/422812/prageru-education-pbs-npr-cpb-defunding

https://www.youtube.com/@PragerU/videos

https://www.pbs.org/video/prageru-1757971049/

2025-08-18 Teachers in California, Oklahoma, and New York are now required to pass a PragerU-developed “America First” assessment which promotes partisan ideology and includes questions that push 2020 false electoral claims.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/18/oklahoma-teachers-america-first-test

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/17/oklahoma-requires-blue-state-teachers-america-first-curriculum/85510568007/

2025-08-19 Nexstar Media (managed by conservative donor Perry Sook and Fox exec Bill Shine) announced acquisition of TEGNA for $6.2B.

https://www.nexstar.tv/nexstar-media-group-inc-enters-into-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-tegna-inc-for-6-2-billion-in-accretive-transaction/

2025 September

2025-09-05 Paramount announced its intent to buy Free Press for $100M and make its founder Bari Weiss editor in chief of CBS.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/paramount-said-prepping-to-buy-free-press-for-100m-give-bari-weiss-senior-role-at-cbs/

https://www.thefp.com/p/the-gaza-famine-myth

https://www.theunspeakablepodcast.com/p/bari-weiss-derangement-free-press-debate-review

https://ccrjustice.org/home/blog/2017/08/09/recent-attack-women-s-march-organizers-irresponsibly-damaging-and-nothing-new

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/20/things-that-matter-bari-weiss-debate-series

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/07/opinion/were-all-fascists-now.html

https://www.thefp.com/t/zohran-mamdani

2025-09-11 Paramount announced its bid for Warner Brothers Discovery, which would then place two of Hollywood’s most powerful studios under the same owner.

https://deadline.com/2025/09/paramount-exploring-bid-warner-bros-discovery-1236529093/

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/paramount-skydance-preparing-bid-warner-bros-discovery-source-says-2025-09-11/

2025-09-14 During a prayer vigil for Kirk, Kari Lake claimed the suspect was “brainwashed” by woke and then warned not to send their children to universities, which she labeled “indoctrination camps”. Kari Lake also stirred controversy in 2022 when she demanded ballots be counted by hand.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/14/2343594/-Kari-Lake-urges-parents-not-to-send-their-children-to-indoctrination-camps-i-e-college

https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-2673993519/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kari-lake-blames-college-indoctrination-for-charlie-kirks-death/

2025-09-17 Sinclair Broadcasting demanded the FCC and ABC take further action on Kimmel to make a direct apology to the Kirk family and make a meaningful personal donation to Turning Point USA.

https://sbgi.net/sinclair-says-kimmel-suspension-is-not-enough-calls-on-fcc-and-abc-to-take-additional-action/

2025-09-17 Sinclair Broadcasting announced they would be replacing the Jimmy Kimmel time slot with a Kirk tribute.

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-live-replaced-charlie-kirk-tribute-sinclair-apology-1236522789/

 

2025-09-21 Following the sharp reaction to cancelling Jimmy Kimmel, Sinclair Broadcast changed its mind about filling the Jimmy Kimmel time slot with the Kirk tribute and had it moved to YouTube.

https://www.wfxg.com/entertainment/sinclair-moves-charlie-kirk-special-to-youtube-instead-of-airing-it-in-jimmy-kimmel-s/article_9298909e-64c0-5d31-8b12-7e6ebcade424.html

2025 November

2025-11-03 Conservative activist Laura Loomer received Pentagon press credentials.

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/post/conservative-activist-laura-loomer-a-trump-ally-says-she-has-new-pentagon-press-pass/

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5587848-pentagon-credentials-laura-loomer/

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4877506-laura-loomer-trump-criticism/

https://x.com/LauraLoomer/status/1985560924720124414

2026 February

2026-02-22 Trump threatened Netflix with consequences unless it removed board member Susan Rice.

https://www.axios.com/2026/02/23/trump-netflix-susan-rice

https://theweek.com/business/trump-netflix-susan-rice-state-run-capitalism

2026-02-25 Paramount Skydance outbid Netflix to buy all of Warner Brothers Discovery.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/netflix-warner-paramount-skydance-deal/

2026 April

2026-04-06 Gulf investors, including Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund L’imad, backed Paramount’s proposed $81 billion acquisition of Warner

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/three-gulf-funds-agree-back-paramounts-81-billion-takeover-warner-wsj-reports-2026-04-05/

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/abu-dhabis-newest-sovereign-fund-takes-control-peer-adq-major-wealth-reshuffle-2026-01-30/

https://gfmag.com/capital-raising-corporate-finance/abu-dhabi-power-play-limad-emerges-as-300-billion-sovereign-force/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/uae-ruling-royal-family-eu-farming-subsidies

https://deadline.com/2026/04/paramount-wbd-merger-foreign-backing-gulf-funds-deal-1236780058/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/three-gulf-funds-agree-to-back-paramount-s-81-billion-takeover-of-warner/ar-AA20e82C

PAYWALL https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/three-gulf-funds-agree-to-back-paramounts-81-billion-takeover-of-warner-04eda364

2026-04-13 Hollywood actors, writers and directors signed an open letter to voice opposition for the Paramount-Warner Brothers-Discovery merger. Part of the letter reads, “The integrity, independence, and diversity of our industry would be grievously compromised. Competition is essential for a healthy economy and a healthy democracy. So is thoughtful regulation and enforcement”.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/hollywood-stars-sign-open-letter-opposing-paramount-warner-bros-deal-2026-04-13/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0egvr94zro

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/14/headlines/hollywood_stars_sign_open_letter_opposing_merger_of_paramount_and_warner_bros

2026-04-16 Tennessee enacted House Bill 1476 “Charlie Kirk Act,” restricting campus walkouts and certain protest activities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ5hlrDtFYk&list=WL&index=3&t=98s

https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/charlie-kirk-act-passed/

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/gop-passes-charlie-kirk-act-that-could-expel-students-who-anti-lgbtq-speakers/

https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-act-tennessee-free-speech-11837604

https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=HB1476&GA=114

2026-04-23 A Paramount-Warner Brothers Discovery merger for $111B was approved.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/warner-bros-discovery-shareholders-approve-paramount-skydance-merger-rcna341529

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj09ny0dq6o

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-shareholder-approval-zaslav-pay-package-1236727798/

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/warner-bros-shareholders-approve-110-175632734.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/what-a-combined-paramount-warner-would-mean-for-streaming-movies-and-news

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-deal-warner-bros-approved-shareholders-1236572862/

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/23/nx-s1-5793628/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-skydance-merger

2026-04-28 Shortly after Trump and First Lady Melania Trump demanded Jimmy Kimmel be fired, the FCC opened an investigation into ABC and Disney for DEI practices.

https://abcnews.com/US/fcc-orders-early-review-abcs-broadcast-licenses/story?id=132466823

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fcc-disney-abc-early-license-renewal-jimmy-kimmel-dei/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fcc-direct-disney-owned-tv-stations-file-early-license-renewals-source-rcna342507

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/fcc-threatens-abcs-licenses-as-trumps-call-for-kimmels-firing

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/28/fcc-begins-review-of-disney-broadcast-licenses-years-ahead-of-schedule.html

2026-04-30 Trump withdrew Casey Means’ nomination for Surgeon General and replaced her with a Fox News contributor. Even MAHA leaders opposed the decision.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-pulls-casey-means-nomination-general-replacement-nicole-saphier-rcna261423

https://apnews.com/article/trump-surgeon-general-means-saphier-cebadfb452fb577b6cd5254e2e55d86b

SUB WALL https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/30/casey-means-murkowski-surgeon-general-rfk-maha-00902206

PAY WALL https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5p4pp1407o

2026 May

2026-05-11 The BBC censored a documentary “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/11/gaza-filmmakers-slam-bbc-after-shelved-documentary-wins-bafta

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eh69K_7pAuE

TIMELINE: https://www.camera.org/article/timeline-the-bbc-gaza-documentary-controversy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedback/corrections_clarifications/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clydv5yngq4o

2026-05-27 After Bari Weiss pulled a story from 60-Minutes about CECOT, reporting correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi wrote in a parting statement, “In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like ‘modernization’ and ‘restructuring’ to explain away my departure. Don’t be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom”.

TIMESTAMP 9:33 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yUjicp6VqU

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/27/60-minutes-sharyn-alfonsi

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/longtime-correspondent-sharyn-alfonsi-expects-to-depart-3960-minutes39-as-big-changes-loom-184448757.html

2026-05-28 Student journalist Santiago Campos delivered a speech during a news Emmy award ceremony, “…as corporate elites take hold over the very pipes through which our information flows, journalism that serves people becomes increasingly harder to come by, yet ever more crucial. And what people want is the truth. So if at any time you hesitate to utter the word ‘genocide’ or remain silent in the face of blatant lies, remember to ask yourself who is this for”.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cbs-scholarship-winner-santiago-campos-tears-into-network-in-blistering-acceptance-speech/

https://www.the-independent.com/bulletin/news/santiago-campos-cbs-news-bari-weiss-b2985217.html

TIMESTAMP 10:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yUjicp6VqU

2026 June

2026-06-15 Fox Corporation wants to buy Roku for $22BN.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/fox-buys-roku-22-billion-rcna350097

https://www.foxcorporation.com/news/corp-press-releases/2026/fox-corporation-to-acquire-roku-inc/

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xJ33k1WKwmE

2026 July

2026-07-08 Salem Media Partners released a taxpayer-funded movie By Dawn’s Early Light that chastises non-Trump supporters and claims systemic bias against Christians during the Biden administration. Salem Media Partners also promoted election fraud claims in their other movie 2000 Mules.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt42950619/

https://baptistnews.com/article/taxpayer-funded-by-dawns-early-light-woos-trumps-evangelical-base/

https://investor.salemmedia.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/926/salem-media-partners-with-compel-studios-to-release-by-dawns-early-light-powerful-new-documentary-on-faith-and-the-future-of-america

https://www.jamesmadisoncenter.org/james-madison-center-for-free-speech-to-host-premiere-of-the-documentary-film-by-dawn-s-early-light-at-trump-kennedy-center

2026-07-30 Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale is working with Israel to help adjust how AI chatbots talk about Gaza in a $45M project.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-brad-parscale-ai-chatbots-gaza

https://aiweekly.co/alerts/israels-45m-ai-op-targets-us-voters-and-chatbot-answers

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/7/30/headlines/drop_site_news_trumps_former_campaign_manager_working_to_influence_how_ai_chatbots_talk_about_gaza

2026 August

2026-08-03 ICE is weaponizing social media to target critics.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-surveillance-internet-critics-e3b22f49

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/ice-crawling-social-media-critics-011515510.html

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/how-ice-is-weaponizing-social-media-against-its-critics-101785835198968.html

https://thecurrency.news/articles/235318/how-ice-is-weaponizing-social-media-against-its-critics/

PAY WALL https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html

PAY WALL https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ice-scours-social-media-to-unmask-critics-raising-free-speech-concerns-0a9573da

2026-08-07 The Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal the national cap on television station ownership. This will lead to greater media consolidation. Free Press announced its plans to challenge the move.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/federal-communications-commission-scraps-limit-broadcast-tv-ownership-rcna587641

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/7/headlines/fcc_votes_to_lift_limits_on_tv_station_ownership

SUB WALL https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/06/fcc-plows-ahead-with-scrapping-tv-ownership-cap-01027287

2026-08-11 Conservative media company Daily Wire released another propaganda movie manufacturing controversies about the WNBA and Zohran Mamdani.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt40231163/

https://www.dailywire.com/videos/run-hide-fight-infidels

2026-08-11 Conservative media company Daily Wire published a genocide-denial article, writing, “a recently published survey backed by the United Nations shows acute manlnutrition among young children in Gaza at or below prewar levels…” and cited Fox News.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-anti-israel-smear-fails-sniff-test-as-u-n-backed-survey-debunks-starvation-claims

2026-08-19 Israel ran a synthetic “think-tank” to influence AI search results. It turned out that the “Hanover Institute” was Israel-funded AI slop.

https://www.404media.co/israel-is-running-a-synthetic-think-tank-to-influence-ai-search-results/

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-creates-fake-think-tank-in-apparent-bid-to-influence-ai-chatbots-report/4032085

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda

https://cybernews.com/security/hanover-institute-influencing-ai-analysis/

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influence-chatgpt/

https://aiweekly.co/alerts/israel-funded-hanover-institute-feeds-ai-chatbots-synthetic-reports

2026 September

2026-09-01 The Washington Post reported several conservative veteran social media influencers receiving secret Pentagon jobs to promote Hegseth’s agenda and attack critics.

https://www.military.com/pentagon-hires-conservative-veterans-influencers-into-inspecified-roles

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/1/headlines/wapo_conservative_veterans_given_secret_pentagon_jobs

PAY WALL https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/30/pentagon-secretly-installs-military-influencers-civilian-roles/

2026-09-01 Christian nationalist MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau said, “You guys will not believe what’s happening right now, what God is doing in answer to your prayers. I can’t even talk about it because then I’ll get in trouble for blabbing what’s going on! But I can tell you this, things are happening in amazing ways. About a month ago – you know all that money that DOGE has been blocking in USAID and all this, you don’t understand how the left, with serpentine genius, like mafia lawyers, have been able to access $1.3TR of revenue from you and other pockets, and redirect them into their ideological crusades, because they don’t take offerings like tonight. They don’t put QR codes up for missionaries going to Brazil to raise a prayer movement. They just go right for the money in Washington and siphon it off. $1.3TR has been redirected into the LGBTQ queer, trans, pro-Palestine, Hamas, the campus activity, the environmentalism, the open borders. Everything is discipled America contrary to Christian – Western Christian – Judeo Christian values, was funded as an ideological disciple America campaign with your money. Trump just came along and said ‘Elon, there’s a lot of waste over there. Figure out what it is.’ Elon went over and he stopped because they were burning down his business. But everything’s on freeze, it’s all freeze-frame right now. All that money. They didn’t – they didn’t evaporate - it’s there. And guess where – guess where – it looks like its heading? Into the conscientious hands of the body of Christ that is willing to do the work of actually meeting needs and not do it for profit and not do it to try to take over, but to do it to meet the needs of a community. $88M last month was just redirected to churches that are ready, and you don’t have to bow the need of (undecipherable) and sign away your right to pray and talk about Jesus. You don’t have to do that, because this is a government that understands why Christians don’t want to get involved with government stuff. So they’re working to make sure that you don’t have to lose your faith or compromise your faith. But you see not participating in the battle that’s happening now is probably the greatest bizarre thing that I’m watching. 36% of Christians will not even vote. By the way, that turning of $1TR that can be now loose in the greatest transfer of wealth that’s ever happened in American history to energize the local church, cuz every single one of these projects, one of the things they’re looking at is get the local church involved with the project. So it’s, the church can have a renaissance and a reformation of culture in America. And you know what? I’m gonna give you the word (rapper?) you know what that means? They don’t pay to evangelize. The government will never do that. They’ll shut you down. But you see, if you’ve got a men’s program that can take care of men that are alcoholic or they’re not paying their child support or they’re or they got a drug addiction problem, and you can get them healed, you can get them help, and you can invite them to church. You’re allowed to do that. You’re allowed to be their friend and bring them with you. You can befriend anyone that you’re helping and these people are getting saved by the thousands because of Christians reaching out to help them.

THE VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ2umzGWmQY&list=WL&index=1

2026-09-03 House GOP members and 33 Democrats passed a bill to strip funding from universities that participate in boycotts of Israel.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-passes-bill-crack-down-university-boycotts-israel-2026-09-03/

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/4/headlines/33_democrats_join_gop_lawmakers_to_pass_bill_stripping_funds_from_schools_that_boycott_israel

https://www.jewishtimes.com/us-house-passes-bill-stripping-federal-funds-from-universities-that-boycott-israel/

2026-09-05 The White House launched an online MAGA-themed arcade on their website.

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/04/g-s1-142045/white-house-arcade-games-maga-tetris

https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-video-game-arcade-d540ff089ed5b1d432715a4209b16a23

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-classic-arcade-games-maga-makeover-online-launch

https://thehill.com/homenews/6070969-white-house-unveils-trump-policy-arcade/

2026-09-10 During the midterm RNC JD Vance delivered a divisive and combative speech calling Democrats the party of hatred. Ted Cruz also delivered a speech calling political opponents Islamists and Communists. In the background of one of the videos you can hear the crowd yelling “He should be shot”, speaking of both Al Sayed and Talarico.

https://abc7news.com/story/vice-president-jd-vance-deliver-keynote-address-final-day-republican-midterm-convention-dallas-texas/19816642/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/10/jd-vance-republican-midterm-convention

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260911-vance-tries-label-democrats-as-party-of-hatred-seizes-maga-spotlight

2026-09-10 The FCC threatened Jimmy Kimmel Live about interviewing Talarico, saying if ABC aired the interview they would be fined. The network had to move the interview to YouTube.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/jimmy-kimmel-abc-tv-show-wont-air-james-talarico-interview-fcc-threats-rcna596994

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/09/10/jimmy-kimmel-james-talarico-fcc-interview/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/10/abc-kimmel-talarico-fcc.html

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jimmy-kimmel-james-talarico-interview-wont-air-fcc-threats-1235624321/

THE INTERVIEW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDE9LrGpNk

2026-09-22 After Trump’s media ban, the White House launched “Trump TV” which was an immediate failure.

https://www.npr.org/2026/09/22/nx-s1-5977768/trump-tv-media-ban-white-house

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/22/trump-trumptv-white-house-live-news-network

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/22/800101679/media/trump-tv-immediate-failure/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umG8z65bpdI&list=WL&index=3

2026-09-24 Trump launched a series of taxpayer-funded propaganda ads.

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-propaganda-ad-commercial-midterms-taxpayer-public-money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmRHejPrkKs

https://www.cbs17.com/news/ap-pro-trump-tv-ad-paid-for-by-us-government-continues-airing-with-higher-spend/

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-goons-launch-absurd-defense-of-crackpot-propaganda-ad/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfsUfT8MnFs&list=WL&index=2

2026-09-27 Trump relaunched a campaign ad from January 2024 as part of a taxpayer-funded propaganda campaign ahead of the midterms.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-house-releases-new-taxpayer-funded-ad-describing-final-battle-rcna600171

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2026/are-trump-taxpayer-funded-ads-legal/

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6116565-senate-gop-criticize-government-ads/

https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-campaign-advertisements-bfa8e3c1c9e50de03092b4ec27055da9

2026-09-29 Rubio touted the new White House AI chatbot America.gov will offer online passport applications, even though nobody can register online to vote anymore.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6118370-rubio-announces-online-passport-application/

2026-09-30 Hegseth launched his own Office of Religious Affairs to further merge church with state.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/what-to-know-about-hegseths-new-office-of-religious-affairs/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/09/30/pentagon-office-of-religious-affairs-hegseth/92028693007/

2026 October

2026-10-01 The White House tweaked America.gov to stop answering certain questions about election fraud claims or citing facts after some of the questions answered contradicted Trump’s own false claims.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcL8QS_JjT0&list=WL&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9n1plL7040&list=WL&index=2

2026-10-05 Karoline Leavitt started work as a contributor for Fox news.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/05/politics/karoline-leavitt-fox-news

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/karoline-leavit-fox-news-contrbutor-1236899073/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/karoline-leavitt-fox-news/

https://apnews.com/article/karoline-leavitt-fox-news-29678b4186eefe6d4a5bf6fb3706cc43

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/05/karoline-leavitt-fox-news-01106686

2026-10-06 Trump claimed Fox news gives Democrat candidates more air time.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6131787-trump-rallies-fox-news-el-sayed-michigan-osborne-nebraska/

https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2026/trump-attacks-fox-news-jessica-tarlov-democrats/

2026-10-13 Conservative commentator Katie Zacharia was made White House press secretary. Katie Zacharia is known for spreading anti-abortion misinformation including a conspiracy that linked mifepristone to Nazi Germany, posting in November 2025 it was “connected to the manufacturer of the deadly gas Zyklon B”.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-zacharia-press-secretary-first-briefing-cba18c265eec807976fcfbbafa39f5f5

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trumps-new-white-house-press-secretary-katie-zacharia-first-briefing-rcna602948

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/10/12/headlines/conservative_tv_personality_katie_zacharia_appointed_white_house_press_secretary

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-press-secretary-busted-peddling-bonkers-nazi-claim

2026-10-17 Instagram suspended No Kings during the rally in an act of censorship, later issuing an apology and claimed it was AI’s fault.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/18/no-kings-instagram-account-suspended-during-protests

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-18/meta-says-claude-ai-tool-triggered-no-kings-instagram-suspension

https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-apologizes-after-suspending-no-kings-instagram-account-2026-10-19/