Oversight Project Releases Interim Netflix Report

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Oversight Project Releases Interim Netflix Report

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 27, 2026

Washington, D.C. – The Oversight Project has released a report detailing how Netflix uses its cozy relationship with federal law enforcement and the intelligence community to spread propaganda and advance ideological social engineering under the guise of entertainment.  Netflix’s relationships and practices has earned it the nickname “FedFlix.”

The Oversight Project has conducted a thorough investigation of publicly available documents, including FOIA returns, court filings, and open source research. We applied our considerable investigative and legal experience to conclude that Netflix’s content and key personnel advance radical left-wing political ideologies that demean traditional American values. These findings are particularly alarming in the broader market contents. Netflix reaches at least 325 million subscribers worldwide, effectively shaping the beliefs, values, and political attitudes of entire generations. Should Netflix acquire Warner Brothers this market share and attendant reach will skyrocket. 

We also concluded based on our analysis of existing data that the use of the media as propaganda to advance a left-wing ideological agenda sweeps through most of the entertainment industry. We concluded that Operation Mockingbird, a CIA-sponsored domestic propaganda campaign from the Cold War never really ended, it just evolved.  We explain from all available evidence how government agencies use the “approval” process of offices, like the FBI Office of Public Affairs, that gives production companies access to the FBI’s expertise in exchange for content modification and editing. We detail multiple examples in which the FBI and other intelligence agencies engaged in blatant content modification to establish a particular narrative in certain productions.  

Oversight Project’s key findings include: 

  • The FBI exercises significant influence, even content control, over Hollywood publications that relate to the FBI. In J. Edgar Hoover’s tradition, the FBI’s content control practices include pre-approving scripts, shaping narratives, binding agreements, and exercising effective veto power over what gets produced with FBI assistance. 
  • Director of National Intelligence Tusli Gabbard publicly confirmed in July 2025 that Operation Mockingbird-type activities never ended. They continue to operate today, with intelligence operatives still actively colluding with left-wing media outlets to influence public and elected leaders with favored, misleading, and even false narratives.
  • Netflix’s Board of Directors is largely composed of highly partisan Democratic operatives and donors, and like-minded elites. 
  • The preliminary analysis of titles in the Netflix library reflects a predominantly left-wing orientation in content, particularly on cultural and social issues, that advance social engineering. One study found that 41% of G-rated series, and 41% of TV-Y7-rated series on Netflix contain LGBTQ+ content. 
  • Netflix airs and produces content that has been slavishly pro-FBI and intelligence community, anti-populist, and pro-left wing politicians and causes. 
  • The Oversight Project’s review of the OneTaste prosecution revealed that the FBI, or persons acting on behalf of the FBI, appears to have collaborated in some capacity with Netflix in its production of “Orgasm Inc: The Story of OneTaste” (2022). 

The Oversight Project recommends:

  • Relevant federal agencies must carefully scrutinize any potential Netflix acquisitions of other media and entertainment companies to take into account the full ramifications of the impacts on American society and the health of the Constitutional Republic. 
  • Full declassification and release, in unredacted form, all operation Mockingbird-related records and any ongoing collusion between Netflix, Hollywood and government actors, particularly from law enforcement, intelligence, and defense actors. 
  • Congressional and Executive Branch investigations of FBI, CIA, and the Department of Defense (now Department of War)(“DOW”) involvement in content production, including subpoenaing all agreements, communications, and collaboration between these entities and Netflix. 
  • Elimination of taxpayer subsidies for propaganda content through legislation. 
  • Mandate transparency requirements for government-media collaboration, and restore the Smith-Mundt Act, with modernizations, to ban any federal agency or entity from generating or distributing propaganda to the American public. 
  • Protection of whistleblowers who expose these practices. 
  • Defund and disband the FBI’s Office of Public Affairs Long Form Team and similar teams at the CIA and DOW. 

The full report can be read here: https://static.itsyourgov.org/FedFlix-Interim-Report-1-27.pdf

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