Backsliding chart updated for media ownership and midterm-election evidence
The V-Dem media-freedom indicator changed from 97.65% to 99.20% after an evidence review of the FCC's national broadcast-ownership-cap action and the completed Skydance/Warner transaction that placed CBS and CNN under one ownership group. Election-integrity evidence was expanded with documented voting-machine proposals and the D.C. ballot-drop-box Guard incident, but the point remained at its pre-existing 100% ceiling. Trump’s Los Angeles/San Diego remarks were added with full context and no score change; they are not represented as an attack order or genocide-stage escalation.