Mastodawn

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills

https://lemmy.world/post/44204224

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills - Lemmy.World

God, I hate posting a Reddit comment, but this is huge. Every claim is sourced (I have not verified personally). cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/985257 [https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/985257] > Comments [https://lobste.rs/s/ddrcpa/i_traced_2_billion_nonprofit_grants_45]

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artyom Mar 13

tl;dr it was Meta (because of course it was).

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Fmstrat

Inside scoop having talked to the company meta uses. Since they use face identification to check age, my belief is that it burdens them with biometric data that the federal government wants rights to. That puts them in a precarious situation if they don’t want to share said data, or can’t make enough off it for the risk, just like problem Discord had. Much safer to have ad-focused data.