Regulatory Capture

Status Systemic

Findings without enforcement; advisory boards staffed by the industries they assess. The recurring reason nothing structurally changes.

Last on record: 2026-08-20
Named in: 4 articles
Across: 4 cases

Named in 4 articles across 4 cases 20 connections: companies 6, lobbies 1, mechanisms 7, regulators and bodies 2, agencies and departments 2, people 2

Tracked in the model

4 cited

Named across 4 articles and 4 cases.

Articles naming it

Cases it recurs across

Linked in the graph

Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Consultancy Rort11 article →The Gambling Rort11 article →Australia's Gas Heist11 article →The Nature Rort11 article →

Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑08‑20Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 4 articles that name Regulatory Capture, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about Regulatory Capture.

Evidence strength · 40 sources across 4 articles

Primary 17
Official 6
Masthead 10
Trade 5
Aggregator 2

Primary: the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
Official: the organisation’s own statement about itself
Masthead: a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
Trade: specialist or trade press
Aggregator: republishes others’ work

How sources are graded

3 of 4 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 02 / Named together

The 12 names most often in the same articles as Regulatory Capture. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.

Fig. 02Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑08‑20Auto-assembled