A COLLECTION. FULL GUIDES. THEIR RECORD.
Left and right media scandals — ratings, platforms, advertiser pressure, and court records. This is a topic collection: start with the full guides (Fox–Dominion & Carlson’s exit, JournoList, Wikipedia capture, GARM, and Smollett — all live) — story, critical path, theories. Nest gateways keep permanent URLs. This page is not a fact-check board. University / journal hoaxes live under The Academia Files.
COMBINED TIMELINE
Dated events merged from nest gateways and full guides inside this collection. Color marks the child topic. Click a point to open that guide’s timeline.
FULL GUIDES INSIDE THIS HUB
Each full guide is a complete AI Files topic — story-first, with pictures, a critical path and theories rated against it. Forthcoming cards open nest gateways until those guides ship.
FULL GUIDEUNITED STATES / 2020–2023
$787.5 million, falsity “crystal clear,” and a host gone six days later.
Court filings, discovery texts, Judge Davis’s falsity summary judgment, Fox’s Form 8-K settlement, and the disputed claim that Carlson’s ouster was a settlement condition. Story, critical path, rival theories. Nest under The Media Files. Not a homepage peer.
FULL GUIDEUNITED STATES / 2007–2010
Private Google Group, Daily Caller leaks, coordination fight.
Ezra Klein’s listserv, Wright and Palin threads as published, Weigel’s resignation, Cabalist, and rival theories from cabal to ordinary shop talk — measured on a 16-step critical path. 52 entries, 32 people, 7 theories. Nest under The Media Files. Not a homepage peer.
FULL GUIDEGLOBAL / 2001–2026
Who steers the pages that steer the search results.
ArbCom and GamerGate discretionary sanctions, Endowment at Tides, Movement Strategy, Fram, Gender CT, RSP/due weight, and the dumps-to-search/AI cascade. Pirate Wires is a topic pointer — rival paths (self-correction, capture, mission creep) rated on a 16-step critical path. 50 entries, 28 people, 20 chapters, 7 theories. Nest under The Media Files. Not a homepage peer.
FULL GUIDEGLOBAL / 2019–2026
Brand safety, ad coalitions, and the fight over who gets paid to speak.
WFA’s Global Alliance for Responsible Media from Christchurch to discontinuation: Floor/Adjacency frameworks, Rogan and Daily Wire exclusion emails, Twitter/X advertiser flight, House Judiciary’s GARM’s Harm, X’s antitrust suit, Boyle dismissal, and the 2026 no-restart settlement. HJC pointer is topic intent. Rival paths on a 16-step critical path. Nest under The Media Files. Not a homepage peer.
FULL GUIDECHICAGO / 2019–2024
The attack claim, the charges, the conviction, the media arc.
January 2019 report, CPD staging allegation, Cook County nolle, special-prosecutor refiling, jury convictions, Appellate affirmance, and the 2024 Illinois Supreme Court due-process reversal — with left/right media framing. Vacated ≠ factual exoneration. 51 entries, 19 people, 7 theories on a 16-step critical path. Nest under The Media Files. Not a homepage peer.
HUB STATUS
Media scandals only.
Full guides for JournoList and Smollett will land as separate workers finish. Wikipedia capture and GARM are live. Sokal and Grievance Studies live under The Academia Files — not here. This hub is not a claims board.
HOW TO READ THIS COLLECTION
Media scandals are not academic peer-review fights. Keep the dockets, the discovery, and the ratings incentives in view.
Complaints, opinions, SEC filings, and contemporaneous statements before cable paraphrase. Mainstream reporting is labeled as mainstream.
Every full guide maps what each major camp accepts, removes, or must treat as wrong against the same critical path.
Sokal, Grievance Studies, and university hiring fights nest under The Academia Files. This hub is cable, platforms, advertisers, and court-driven media cases.
CASE GATEWAYS / NEST INDEX
Permanent nest URLs. When a full guide publishes, the nest becomes a maintained-record gateway pointing at it.
5 CASE GATEWAYS
FULL GUIDE2020–2023
Court record through $787.5M and the exit week.
FULL GUIDE2007–2010
Private listserv leaks and the coordination fight.
FULL GUIDE2001–2026
Post-2016 enforcement, Foundation strategy, RSP weight, and the dumps-to-AI cascade — rival paths on a critical path.
FULL GUIDE2019–2026
Brand-safety alliance, HJC emails, X suit, discontinuation, Boyle dismissal, settlement pledge.
FULL GUIDE2019–2024
Attack claim through conviction, reversal, and coverage.
METHOD
A paid release can acknowledge a falsity ruling without a jury finding of actual malice. Guides say which is which.
Discovery texts matter when they are in the record — quoted carefully, not as vibes.
Researched and written by AI through 24 October 2026. Spot an error? Use Dispute / Submit a source.
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Portrait of Jussie Smollett (Dominick D, CC BY-SA 2.0) from the full guide image set · EXIF stripped · face-biased crop for the card.
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