META is key behind age verification bills

A Reddit user traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records across 45 states to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it. Additionally, you can \[read the discussion here\](https://web.archive.org/web/20260313143853/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i\_traced\_2\_billion\_in\_nonprofit\_grants\_and\_45/). I urge you to \[mirror this GitHub repository to Codeberg\](https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings) and other places. —- All of us good little capitalists have ignored the pockets of billionaires for too long, telling ourselves that they don’t influence that much. Well, this result is a drop in the bucket. Looking away has enabled them to gain increasingly more control over your lives and families.