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Available reporting does not show Brigitte Macron photographed with her brother at any recent funerals; mainstream coverage focuses on threats, legal cases and conspiracy theories surrounding her iden...
Available sources describe Kent (Carl Kenneth) Frantzve as having ties to Raytheon-related work and note Raytheon’s long-running technical cooperation with Israeli companies on systems such as Iron Do...
Jasmine Crockett has accepted six-figure sums from PACs and corporate-linked donors since 2022, including contributions tied to defense contractors, while denying endorsement or direct funding from AI...
Available sources in the provided set do not report that Robert De Niro donated “millions to hunger relief.” There is material showing De Niro’s charitable interests broadly (Look to the Stars lists c...
The EU imposed an effective bloc-wide ban on broadcasting RT and Sputnik in March 2022, prohibiting EU operators from “broadcasting, facilitating or otherwise contributing to the dissemination” of the...
Reporting shows Scott Ritter is a frequent contributor to Russian state media (RT, Sputnik) and has been welcomed and amplified by Russian outlets and officials; U.S. authorities searched his home in ...
Federal indictments and investigative reporting establish concrete examples of U.S. influencers receiving payments tied to foreign governments: a September 2024 U.S. indictment alleges Russian state-m...
Several sources show the EU moved to ban RT and Sputnik from broadcasting across the bloc in March 2022 and that national regulators and platforms enforced or supplemented those measures; however repo...
The European Union issued a bloc-wide ban on broadcasting and dissemination of RT and Sputnik on 2 March 2022, prohibiting EU operators from "broadcasting, facilitating or otherwise contributing to th...
Public reporting and social-media threads link Kent Frantzve to defense firms such as “AzTech International” and assert ties to Raytheon/“Raytheon Israel,” but available documents in the provided set ...
AI-generated material and deepfakes involving Rachel Maddow have circulated widely; Maddow herself addressed a “sudden flood” of AI-created false stories centered on her, and multiple outlets (includi...
Egale Canada filed a formal complaint asking the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to remove Fox News from Canadian distribution, alleging repeated violations of broad...
Public figures and organizations across the right-wing media ecosystem, some politicians, and foreign state media have amplified QAnon themes: researchers and reporting name former national-security a...
Thom Hartmann is widely described in source reporting as both a progressive and a liberal commentator: major reference entries and his own platforms call him “progressive,” while fact‑checks and profi...
EU measures that suspended broadcasting of Russian state outlets RT and Sputnik in March 2022 interrupted what EU institutions called “systematic disinformation” aimed at European publics, and the Gen...
Investigations were opened at different times into aspects of Tara Reade’s allegations and related conduct: a D.C. police report she filed in April 2020 was at one point described as an “active invest...
Federal prosecutors’ recent indictments and media reporting name several U.S. right‑wing internet personalities — notably Tim Pool, Dave Rubin and Benny Johnson — as having been paid by a Tennessee‑ba...
EU-level bans on RT and Sputnik date to March 2022 and prohibit EU operators from broadcasting or facilitating their content; national regulators and internet service providers (ISPs) are responsible ...
U.S. law governing foreign funding of media figures is fragmented: federal statutes like the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) target agents acting "at the order, request, or under the direction ...
Reporting shows public allegations and some documentary traces tying foreign governments to U.S. media figures, but concrete, verified disclosures about direct funding of Tucker Carlson are mixed: Jus...