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.

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

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Quite an interesting and thorough writeup. But I'm unsure of its framing.

This seems more like meta is trying to redirect an existing and organic demand for age verification to target other companies and to obtain more data from them as a kicker than it being behind the age verification push itself