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I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbying

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by gnabgib

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by theseusares

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Update regarding UK, Brazil, Meta global involvement, Heritage Foundation, et more: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rtd51g/update_i_pul...

by throwaway81523

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Similar info to the reddit post that's been linked here
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b...

by Schmerika

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Getting a 403 error on their site, but the archive remembers [0] and yeah - that website is wildly sus.
Lil offtopic: This is interesting stuff on its own, so I don't want to distract from the important discussion. However, OP might want to know: I don't think I've ever seen a new account's first (utterly inoffensive) comment show up [dead] like theirs [1]. (You might need [showdead] on to see that, idk.)
Anyone have any insight?
0 - https://web.archive.org/web/20250324144815/https://www.digit...
1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361290

by productinventor

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What’s striking here is how much of this is technically public information, yet practically impossible to see without doing the kind of stitching you did. It highlights how “transparency” can exist on paper while the real picture remains buried across dozens of filings and databases.

by theseusares

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by khelavastr

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by hubrix

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by kurvexa

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by d--b

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Re-posting findings, cause somehow OP's message was downvoted:
https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...

by d--b

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I sometimes wonder who is insane enough to be behind these schemes.
I mean what degree of alienation does it require to setup a website that claims to be about an advocacy group for children safety, while it is in fact a fake site for an org funneling lobbying money into passing laws that makes their boss more money. How can they live like this?
And then I remember the Monsanto lobbyists, the Sacklers' enablers, the cigarette people and the oil lawyers. I guess there is just a ton of people who are natural born minions.