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CNN headquarters in Atlanta vandalized during protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: May 29, 2020
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Targets: CNN

Equipment damaged →: Building, 1
Actor →: Private individual

CNN ordered to produce source communications in defamation lawsuit

Incident Details

Date of incident: May 19, 2020
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
Targets: CNN

Legal orders →: Motion to compel for communications or work product

May 19, 2020: Upheld

June 10, 2020: Objected to

Oct. 7, 2020: Upheld
Legal order target →: Institution
Legal order venue →: Federal

CNN anchors excluded from lunch with president ahead of State of the Union

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 4, 2020
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: CNN

Other Incident

Tennessee lawmaker introduces bill to declare CNN, Washington Post ‘fake news’

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 29, 2020
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Targets: CNN, The Washington Post

Chilling Statement

Trump Justice Department secretly obtained CNN Pentagon reporter’s email, phone records

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 1, 2020
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: Barbara Starr (CNN)

Legal orders →: 2703(d) court order for communications or work product

Jan. 1, 2020: Carried out
Legal order target →: Third-party: Unknown (telecom company)
Legal order venue →: Federal

Congressman Nunes alleges CNN, Daily Beast ‘committed crimes’ in reporting, says will sue

Incident Details

Updated on: April 14, 2022
Date of incident: November 24, 2019
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: CNN, The Daily Beast

Other Incident

Army soldier indicted for disclosing bomb-making techniques mentioned news media as targets

Incident Details

Date of incident: September 21, 2019
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
Targets: CNN

Other Incident

Department of State bars press pool from briefing call, allowing only “faith-based media”

Incident Details

Date of incident: March 18, 2019
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: CNN, State Department Press Corps

Government agency or public official involved →: Federal government: Agency
Type of denial →: Government event

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