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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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[-] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Thank you for this. Like, I heard a bit about this but set it aside as "to be researched later" without realizing how far along the stupidity had gotten.

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