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I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills (www.reddit.com)
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God, I hate posting a Reddit comment, but this is huge. Every claim is sourced (I have not verified personally).

Edit: Well, Reddit does what reddit does, it's been removed. Here is a github link: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/985257

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[โ€“] 13igTyme@piefed.social -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Horrible company is responsible for horrible thing they claimed to have done. More at 11.

[โ€“] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

Horrible company says "what? Me? No, guv, we just run ads".

Best to get receipts.