FOIAengine: Homeland Security Report, Media Requests Highlight the Issue When a deepfake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon caused investor panic in 2023, the hysteria caught authorities off guard and stymied investigators. The photo spread like a contagion...
Mastermind of the Federal Spending Freeze
FOIAengine: Vought’s Center for Renewing America Shows the Priorities of OMB’s New Director. But Will He Be in Synch with Musk? This week, we’re looking at the events, and the players, involved in the shambolic roll-out of the Trump Administration’s...
How Project 2025 Targets Pentagon Leadership
FOIAengine: Over 1,500 Requests Probe Views Using FOIA A new FOIAengine analysis of just-released Department of Defense Freedom of Information Act requests reveals the extent to which the conservative initiative Project 2025 used massive numbers of FOIA requests to...
The Growing Litigation Threat to Starbucks
FOIAengine Breaks Down Court Cases, NLRB Actions, and Recent FOIA Requests On Brian Niccol’s first day four months ago as the new CEO of Starbucks, he sent out a memo to the coffee chain’s 200,000 employees. Starbucks had seen four CEOs in as many years. Labor...
More Questions About Obesity Drug Makers
FOIAengine: How Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Others Use FOIA Welcome to 2025. At PoliScio Analytics, we logged 45,720 federal FOIA requests into our FOIAengine database during the past 12 months. But one subject, more than most others, dominated in hundreds of requests...
Questioning a Monopoly in Outer Space
FOIAengine: Reporter Seeks Answers About NASA-SpaceX Relationship SpaceX has had a good year. In June, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded SpaceX a contract valued at up to $843 million to build the spacecraft that will be used to perform...