Actors
Officials and bodies named in the record. Each entry gives the role or office and the jurisdiction, and lists the incidents in which the actor is named. Entries carry no description or party label.
| Name | Role or office | Jurisdiction | Incidents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abdel Fattah el-Sisi | President of Egypt | EG | 3 |
| Abiy Ahmed | Prime Minister of Ethiopia | ET | 3 |
| Adani Group | Private conglomerate; complainant in defamation proceedings against a journalist | India | 1 |
| Adly Mansour | Interim President of Egypt | EG | 1 |
| Adolf Hitler | Chancellor of Germany | DE | 1 |
| Alan Rusbridger | Editor-in-chief, The Guardian | United Kingdom | 1 |
| Alan W. Pessin | Correspondent, Voice of America | United States | 1 |
| Albert Barnes Anderson | Judge, United States District Court for the District of Indiana | United States | 1 |
| Albert S. Burleson | United States Postmaster General | United States | 2 |
| Alberto Fujimori | President of Peru | PE | 1 |
| Alejandro Giammattei | President of Guatemala, 2020-2024 | GT | 1 |
| Aleksandar Vucic | President of Serbia | RS | 1 |
| Alexander Dubček | First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia | CZ | 1 |
| Alexander Lukashenko | President of Belarus | BY | 6 |
| Alfred E. Smith | Governor of New York | United States | 0 |
| Anatoly Glaz | Spokesman for Belarus's Foreign Ministry | BY | 1 |
| Andrew Graham-Yooll | Journalist, Buenos Aires Herald | AR | 1 |
| Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff | Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies | ID | 1 |
| Andrzej Duda | President of Poland | PL | 1 |
| Anna Politkovskaya | Journalist, Novaya Gazeta | Russia | 1 |
| António de Oliveira Salazar | Prime Minister of Portugal | PT | 1 |
| Anwar Ibrahim | Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia | MY | 1 |
| Arizona Legislature | State legislature | United States | 1 |
| Army Ministry of Japan | Ministry responsible for the Imperial Japanese Army | JP | 1 |
| Arthur Calwell | Australian Minister for Information | AU | 1 |
| Artur da Costa e Silva | President of Brazil | BR | 1 |
| Attorney General for England and Wales | Chief legal officer of the government of England and Wales | United Kingdom | 1 |
| Augusto Pinochet | Commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army and head of the governing military junta | CL | 1 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | State Counsellor of Myanmar | MM | 1 |
| Australian Federal Police | National police force | AU | 1 |
| Baher Mohamed | Producer, Al Jazeera English, Cairo | EG | 1 |
| Balthazar Johannes Vorster | Prime Minister of South Africa | ZA | 0 |
| Barack Obama | President of the United States (2009-2017) | United States | 6 |
| Beata Szydlo | Prime Minister of Poland | PL | 1 |
| Belarusian Ministry of Information | Government information ministry | BY | 1 |
| Benjamin Netanyahu | Prime Minister of Israel | Israel | 1 |
| Bob Martinez | Governor of Florida | United States | 0 |
| Brendan Carr | Chair, Federal Communications Commission | United States | 4 |
| Byron Price | Director, United States Office of Censorship | United States | 1 |
| Byron White | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | United States | 1 |
| Carrie Lam | Chief Executive of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | 1 |
| Central District Court, Minsk | Belarusian court that issued the extremist designations | BY | 1 |
| Central European Press and Media Foundation (KESMA) | Government-aligned media holding foundation | Hungary | 1 |
| Charles Colson | Special Counsel to the President (Nixon administration) | United States | 1 |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Chief Justice of the United States | United States | 1 |
| Chelsea Manning | U.S. Army intelligence analyst | United States | 1 |
| Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Foreign ministry | CN | 1 |
| Chris Anyanwu | Editor-in-chief, The Sunday Magazine | NG | 1 |
| Chun Doo-hwan | General and de facto head of South Korea's martial-law government | KR | 1 |
| Clarence Strider | Sheriff of Tallahatchie County, Mississippi | United States | 1 |
| Confederación General del Trabajo (CGT) | Argentina's main labor federation | AR | 1 |
| Cornelia Pillard | Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit | United States | 0 |
| Dan Oakes | Investigative journalist, ABC | AU | 1 |
| Daniel Ellsberg | Military analyst who copied the Pentagon Papers | United States | 1 |
| Daniel François Malan | Prime Minister of South Africa | ZA | 1 |
| Daniel Ortega | President of Nicaragua | NI | 2 |
| Daniel Schorr | Correspondent, CBS News | United States | 1 |
| David Ben-Gurion | Prime Minister of Israel | Israel | 1 |
| David Cameron | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 1 |
| David Miranda | Partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald | BR | 1 |
| Dean C. Worcester | Secretary of the Interior, Philippine Islands | PH | 1 |
| Demiroren Holding | Turkish conglomerate aligned with the governing party | Türkiye | 1 |
| Departamento de Imprensa e Propaganda (DIP) | Brazilian government press and state messaging department | BR | 1 |
| Dick Cheney | Secretary of Defense | United States | 1 |
| Dmitry Muratov | Editor of Novaya Gazeta | Russia | 1 |
| Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov | Former officer, Moscow police surveillance unit | Russia | 1 |
| Donald Stewart Russell | Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit | United States | 1 |
| Donald Trump | President of the United States | United States | 19 |
| Donald Tusk | Prime Minister of Poland | PL | 1 |
| Doug Ducey | Governor of Arizona, 2015-2023 | United States | 1 |
| Douglas Hurd | Home Secretary of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 1 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | President of the United States | United States | 1 |
| Ebrahim Raisi | President of Iran | IR | 1 |
| Edward Douglass White | Chief Justice of the United States | United States | 1 |
| Edward Heath | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 0 |
| Emmerson Mnangagwa | President of Zimbabwe | ZW | 1 |
| Enrique Pena Nieto | President of Mexico | MX | 1 |
| Eric Holder | Attorney General of the United States | United States | 3 |
| Ethiopian Media Authority | Broadcast and media regulator | ET | 2 |
| Eugene Daniels | President, White House Correspondents' Association (2025) | United States | 1 |
| Eurith D. Rivers | Governor of Georgia | United States | 0 |
| Federal Bureau of Investigation | Federal law enforcement agency | United States | 2 |
| Federal Communications Commission | Independent federal regulatory agency | United States | 4 |
| Ferdinand Marcos | President of the Philippines | PH | 1 |
| Fidel Castro | Prime Minister of Cuba | CU | 1 |
| Floyd B. Olson | Hennepin County Attorney, Minnesota | United States | 1 |
| Francisco Franco | Head of State of Spain | ES | 1 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | President of the United States | United States | 1 |
| Franz Josef Strauss | Federal Minister of Defense, Federal Republic of Germany | DE | 1 |
| Fumimaro Konoe | Prime Minister of Japan | JP | 0 |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | President of Egypt | EG | 1 |
| Gary Pruitt | President and Chief Executive, The Associated Press | United States | 1 |
| Geng Shuang | Spokesperson for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs | CN | 1 |
| George H. W. Bush | President of the United States | United States | 1 |
| George Shultz | United States Secretary of State | United States | 1 |
| George Sutherland | Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States | United States | 1 |
| George W. Bush | President of the United States | United States | 2 |
| Georgios Tsolakoglou | President of the collaborationist government of occupied Greece | GR | 1 |
| Getúlio Vargas | President of Brazil | BR | 1 |
| Gideon Cody | Chief of Police, Marion, Kansas, 2023 | United States | 1 |
| Glavlit | Soviet state office overseeing printed matter and the arts | Russia | 1 |
| Glenn Greenwald | Journalist, The Guardian | United Kingdom | 1 |
| Government of Israel | National government | Israel | 1 |
| Government of Malaysia | Government of Malaysia | MY | 1 |
| Government of Türkiye | National government | Türkiye | 1 |
| Gregory G. Katsas | Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit | United States | 0 |
| Guatemalan Public Ministry | Public prosecutor's office | GT | 1 |
| Harry Roque | Presidential spokesperson of the Philippines | PH | 1 |
| Hassan Rouhani | President of Iran | IR | 1 |
| Herbert Henry Asquith | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 1 |
| Hila Gerstl | Israeli district court judge | Israel | 1 |
| Home Ministry of Japan | Ministry responsible for domestic administration and press control, Empire of Japan | JP | 1 |
| Hong Kong Department of Justice | Prosecuting authority, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region | Hong Kong | 1 |
| Hong Kong District Court | Trial court | Hong Kong | 1 |
| Huey P. Long | United States Senator from Louisiana | United States | 1 |
| Hugh L. White | Governor of Mississippi | United States | 0 |
| Hugh Stuart | Judge, District Court of Lincoln County, Nebraska | United States | 1 |
| Hugo Chavez | President of Venezuela | VE | 1 |
| Hun Sen | Prime Minister of Cambodia | KH | 2 |
| I. Lewis Libby | Chief of Staff to the Vice President | United States | 1 |
| Ilham Aliyev | President of Azerbaijan | AZ | 1 |
| Indian Income Tax Department | Tax authority | India | 1 |
| Indira Gandhi | Prime Minister of India | India | 1 |
| Irakli Kobakhidze | Prime Minister of Georgia | GE | 1 |
| Isaias Afwerki | President of Eritrea | ER | 1 |
| Istanbul court (Feza Media Group case) | Court that ordered trustees installed at Feza Media Group | Türkiye | 1 |
| J. James Exon | Governor of Nebraska | United States | 0 |
| Jacob Frey | Mayor of Minneapolis | United States | 1 |
| Jacobo Timerman | Editor and founder, La Opinión | AR | 1 |
| Jacqui Heinrich | President, White House Correspondents' Association (2026) | United States | 1 |
| Jamal Khashoggi | Columnist, The Washington Post | SA | 1 |
| James O. Eastland | United States Senator, chair of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee | United States | 1 |
| James Risen | Reporter, The New York Times | United States | 1 |
| James Rosen | Reporter, Fox News | United States | 1 |
| James Zurcher | Chief of Police, Palo Alto, California | United States | 1 |
| Javier Milei | President of Argentina | AR | 1 |
| Jean Dominique | Director, Radio Haiti-Inter | HT | 1 |
| Jean-Claude Duvalier | President of Haiti | HT | 1 |
| Jeff Landry | Governor of Louisiana | Louisiana, United States | 0 |
| Jeffrey Sterling | Former Central Intelligence Agency officer | United States | 1 |
| Jhopee Avancena | Head of Malacanang Palace's internal house affairs office | PH | 1 |
| Jim Acosta | Correspondent, CNN | United States | 1 |
| Joe Biden | President of the United States, 2021-2025 | United States | 2 |
| John Curtin | Prime Minister of Australia | AU | 1 |
| John Dean | Counsel to the President of the United States | United States | 1 |
| John Demers | Assistant Attorney General for National Security | United States | 1 |
| John Horgan | Premier of British Columbia, 2017-2022 | Canada | 1 |
| John Kiriakou | Former Central Intelligence Agency officer | United States | 1 |
| John Lee | Chief Executive of Hong Kong (from July 2022) | Hong Kong | 1 |
| John Magufuli | President of Tanzania | TZ | 1 |
| John Patterson | Governor of Alabama | United States | 0 |
| John Pomfret | Correspondent, Associated Press | United States | 1 |
| John W. Vessey Jr. | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States | United States | 1 |
| John W. deGravelles | Judge, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana | Louisiana, United States | 1 |
| Jon Leyne | Tehran correspondent, BBC | IR | 1 |
| Jorge Rafael Videla | President of Argentina and head of the governing military junta | AR | 1 |
| Joseph McCarthy | U.S. Senator from Wisconsin | United States | 1 |
| Joseph Muscat | Prime Minister of Malta | MT | 1 |
| Juan Perón | President of Argentina | AR | 0 |
| Judith Miller | Reporter, The New York Times | United States | 1 |
| Julian Assange | Founder, WikiLeaks | AU | 1 |
| Kais Saied | President of Tunisia | TN | 1 |
| Karen Bass | Mayor of Los Angeles | United States | 1 |
| Kari Lake | Senior Advisor, U.S. Agency for Global Media | United States | 1 |
| Karoline Leavitt | White House Press Secretary | United States | 1 |
| Kassym-Jomart Tokayev | President of Kazakhstan | KZ | 2 |
| Kim Jong Il | Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea | KP | 1 |
| Konrad Adenauer | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany | DE | 0 |
| Kunle Ajibade | Editor, The News magazine | NG | 1 |
| Kyaw Soe Oo | Reporter, Reuters | MM | 1 |
| L. B. Sullivan | Commissioner of Public Affairs, City of Montgomery, Alabama | United States | 1 |
| Laszlo Vecsei | Mayor of Csakbereny, Hungary | Hungary | 1 |
| Laura Kelly | Governor of Kansas | United States | 0 |
| Learned Hand | Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York | United States | 1 |
| Lenin Moreno | President of Ecuador | EC | 1 |
| Leonie Brinkema | Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia | United States | 1 |
| Li Peng | Premier of the People's Republic of China | CN | 1 |
| Los Angeles Police Department | Municipal police department | United States | 1 |
| Louis P. Bergna | District Attorney, Santa Clara County, California | United States | 1 |
| Louis le Grange | Minister of Law and Order, South Africa | ZA | 1 |
| Louisiana Legislature | State legislature | Louisiana, United States | 2 |
| Mahathir Mohamad | Prime Minister of Malaysia | MY | 2 |
| Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | President of Iran | IR | 1 |
| Margaret Thatcher | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 1 |
| Marion Police Department | Municipal police department | United States | 1 |
| Mary McGrory | Columnist, The Washington Post | United States | 1 |
| Mateusz Morawiecki | Prime Minister of Poland | PL | 1 |
| Mehmed V | Sultan of the Ottoman Empire | Türkiye | 0 |
| Merrick Garland | United States Attorney General, 2021-2025 | United States | 1 |
| Michael Caputo | HHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, 2020 | United States | 1 |
| Michèle Montas | Journalist, Radio Haiti-Inter | HT | 1 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | Russia | 0 |
| Min Aung Hlaing | Chairman, Myanmar State Administration Council | MM | 2 |
| Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (India) | Ministry that issued the IT Rules amendment creating the Fact Check Unit | India | 1 |
| Minneapolis Police Department | Municipal police department | United States | 1 |
| Minnesota State Patrol | State police agency | United States | 1 |
| Mohamed Fahmy | Bureau Chief, Al Jazeera English, Cairo | EG | 1 |
| Mohammed bin Salman | Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia | SA | 1 |
| Muhammad Yunus | Chief Adviser, interim government of Bangladesh | BD | 1 |
| Myanmar military (Tatmadaw) | Armed forces and ruling junta since the February 2021 coup | MM | 1 |
| Narendra Modi | Prime Minister of India | India | 5 |
| National Assembly of Hungary | National legislature | Hungary | 2 |
| National Council of the Slovak Republic | National legislature | SK | 1 |
| Nayib Bukele | President of El Salvador | El Salvador | 1 |
| Neil MacBride | U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia | United States | 1 |
| Neomi Rao | Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit | United States | 0 |
| Nguyen Tan Dung | Prime Minister of Vietnam | VN | 1 |
| Nguyen Xuan Phuc | Prime Minister of Vietnam | VN | 1 |
| Nicaraguan Court of Appeals | Appellate court that issued the citizenship-stripping rulings | NI | 1 |
| Nicolas Maduro | President of Venezuela | VE | 2 |
| Oscar K. Allen | Governor of Louisiana | United States | 0 |
| Otis T. Dunagan | Judge, District Court for the Seventh Judicial District of Texas, at Tyler | United States | 1 |
| P. W. Botha | State President of South Africa | ZA | 1 |
| PKN Orlen | Poland's state-controlled oil and gas company | PL | 1 |
| Pam Bondi | Attorney General of the United States | United States | 1 |
| Paramount Skydance | Media company, parent of CBS News | United States | 0 |
| Parliament of Georgia | National legislature | GE | 1 |
| Parliament of Pakistan | National legislature | PK | 1 |
| Parliament of Zimbabwe | National legislature | ZW | 1 |
| Patrick Fitzgerald | Special Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice | United States | 1 |
| Paul von Hindenburg | President of Germany | DE | 1 |
| Pete Hegseth | United States Secretary of Defense | United States | 2 |
| Pete Williams | Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs | United States | 1 |
| Peter Greste | Correspondent, Al Jazeera English | EG | 1 |
| Price Daniel | Governor of Texas | United States | 0 |
| Rafael Correa | President of Ecuador | EC | 1 |
| Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | President of Türkiye | Türkiye | 9 |
| Reich Press Chamber (Reichspressekammer) | Nazi Germany's compulsory professional body for journalists | DE | 1 |
| Richard Nixon | President of the United States (1969-1974) | United States | 4 |
| Robert A. Butterworth Jr. | Attorney General of Florida | United States | 1 |
| Robert Cox | Editor, Buenos Aires Herald | AR | 1 |
| Robert Fico | Prime Minister of Slovakia | SK | 1 |
| Robert Mugabe | President of Zimbabwe | ZW | 3 |
| Rodrigo Duterte | President of the Philippines | PH | 3 |
| Ron DeSantis | Governor of Florida | Florida, United States | 1 |
| Ronald Reagan | President of the United States | United States | 1 |
| Roskomnadzor | Russia's federal media and communications regulator | Russia | 1 |
| Royal Canadian Mounted Police | Canada's federal police, contracted for provincial policing in British Columbia | Canada | 1 |
| Saadeddine Othmani | Prime Minister of Morocco | MA | 1 |
| Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | King of Saudi Arabia | SA | 2 |
| Samia Suluhu Hassan | President of Tanzania | TZ | 1 |
| Sani Abacha | Head of State of Nigeria | NG | 1 |
| Sarah Sanders | White House Press Secretary | United States | 1 |
| Saw Maung | General, Chairman of the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) | MM | 1 |
| Scott Morrison | Prime Minister of Australia, 2018-2022 | AU | 2 |
| Serbian Ministry of the Interior | Ministry overseeing police | RS | 1 |
| Shehbaz Sharif | Prime Minister of Pakistan | PK | 1 |
| Sir William Joynson-Hicks | Home Secretary | United Kingdom | 1 |
| Slobodan Milosevic | President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia | RS | 1 |
| Stanley Baldwin | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | United Kingdom | 0 |
| State Duma of Russia | Lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia | Russia | 2 |
| State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) | Burma's military government from 1988 | MM | 1 |
| Stephen Jin-Woo Kim | State Department arms expert | United States | 1 |
| Steven Cheung | White House Communications Director | United States | 1 |
| Supreme Council for Media Regulation | Egypt's state media regulator | EG | 1 |
| Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority | Telecommunications regulator | TZ | 1 |
| Taylor Budowich | White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications | United States | 1 |
| Teodoro Locsin Sr. | Publisher, Philippines Free Press | PH | 1 |
| Theodore Christianson | Governor of Minnesota | United States | 1 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | President of the United States | United States | 1 |
| Thomas F. Hogan | Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia | United States | 1 |
| Thomas G. Patten | Postmaster of New York City | United States | 1 |
| Tim Walz | Governor of Minnesota | United States | 1 |
| Timothy J. Kelly | Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia | United States | 1 |
| Tom Homan | White House Border Czar | United States | 1 |
| Trevor N. McFadden | Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia | United States | 0 |
| Turkish Center for Combating Disinformation | Government body that disputes reporting it deems false | Türkiye | 1 |
| U.S. Agency for Global Media | Federal agency overseeing Voice of America | United States | 1 |
| U.S. Customs and Border Protection | Federal border and customs agency | United States | 1 |
| U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | Federal health department overseeing the CDC | United States | 1 |
| U.S. Department of Homeland Security | Federal department deploying officers to Portland in 2020 | United States | 1 |
| U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Federal immigration enforcement agency | United States | 1 |
| United States Congress | Federal legislature | United States | 2 |
| United States Department of Defense | Federal executive department | United States | 3 |
| United States Department of Justice | Federal executive department | United States | 6 |
| Venezuelan National Guard (GNB) | Military internal security force | VE | 1 |
| Viktor Orban | Prime Minister of Hungary (through 2026) | Hungary | 8 |
| Vladimir Gusinsky | Founder, NTV | Russia | 1 |
| Vladimir Lenin | Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Soviet Russia/the USSR | Russia | 1 |
| Vladimir Putin | President of Russia | Russia | 14 |
| Wa Lone | Reporter, Reuters | MM | 1 |
| Warren E. Burger | Chief Justice of the United States | United States | 1 |
| Wesley McDonald | Admiral, commander of United States forces in the Grenada operation | United States | 1 |
| White House Correspondents' Association | Professional association of accredited White House reporters | United States | 2 |
| White House Press Office | Office of the White House Press Secretary | United States | 5 |
| William Howard Taft | Governor-General of the Philippine Islands | PH | 1 |
| William Lyon Mackenzie King | Prime Minister of Canada | Canada | 1 |
| William M. Hoeveler | United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida | United States | 1 |
| Winston Churchill | Chancellor of the Exchequer | United Kingdom | 1 |
| Wojciech Jaruzelski | First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party and Prime Minister of Poland | PL | 1 |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of the United States | United States | 2 |
| Xi Jinping | President of China | CN | 5 |
| Yevgeny Kiselyov | Managing Director, NTV | Russia | 1 |
| Yingluck Shinawatra | Prime Minister of Thailand | TH | 1 |
| Zulkifli Sulong | Editor, Harakah | MY | 1 |