Mastodawn

#AgeVerification #Lobbying: #DarkMoney, Model #Legislation & Institutional Capture
How corporate lobbying, #thinktank infrastructure, competing model legislation, and obscured funding networks are shaping age verification policy across 45 states and #Congress.
#Meta spent $26.3M on lobbying in 2025, deployed 86+ lobbyists across 45 states, and funded #DigitalChildhoodAlliance (#DCA) to advocate for the #AppStoreAccountabilityAct (#ASAA). But operation extends beyond Meta.
https://tboteproject.com/

Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation & Institutional Capture

Investigative research into age verification lobbying, dark money, and model legislation

The TBOTE Project

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Bandersnatch 1d ago

@AssociatedPress @business-and-finance-AssociatedPress

When #pedo #politicians can have unlimited #darkmoney, but non-profits that actually help people are restricted, you know you're in a #shithole country.

You know you're in #Trumpland

Flowermob 2d ago

#META #DestroyMeta #Privacy #DarkMoney #TechFascists

https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/attestation-findings

attestation-findings

Age attestation investigation

Forgejo: Beyond coding. We Forge.

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️3d ago

"The #billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, an amount roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined. And that does not count money that #billionaires contributed through #DarkMoney groups that do not have to disclose their donors.

#Money at that scale can be game-changing... spending money wins #elections."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/billionaires-federal-election-campaign-contributions.html

#RepealCitizensUnited #Politics #Corruption #SCOTUS #USPol #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #America

Huubje 4d ago

That's a lot of data

https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

#OSINT #Chatcontrol #Privacy #AgeVerification #Meta #Facebook #DarkMoney #Lobbying

GitHub - upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

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MusiqueNow

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4d ago

The #Rightwing Contacted #Influencers to Try and Fuck Over #Abughazaleh

#KatAbughazaleh

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v0R55QGMUsk&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1VUw%3D%3D

#VoteForKate #Chicago #Illinois

Don't let the #farright #AIPAC #DarkMoney etc win

We Tied in the Polls… Then An Influencer Smear Campaign Started | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois

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MusiqueNow

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4d ago

Scared of #KatAbughazaleh, a #DarkMoney Group (#DemocracyUnmuted 🙄🙄) Offers #Influencers Money to Attack the Progressive Candidate

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2nJTPic1uqo

17 March #VoteForKat #Chicago #Elections

Dark money group offers influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Dem candidate

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N-gated Hacker News 4d ago

💼🕵️‍♂️ In a shocking twist, corporations are spending big bucks to push their age verification agendas 🙄. Surprise! Dark money and think tanks are the new BFFs in this complex love triangle of influence 🍿. Who knew #lobbying was a thing?! 🤔💸
https://tboteproject.com #corporateinfluence #ageverification #darkmoney #scandal #HackerNews #ngated