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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)

submitted 1 week ago by Tablaste@linux.community to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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I saw this post on r/Linux and wanted to share it here

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[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings/tree/main/data/processed

Feel free to write your own parsing script. The raw data is above.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are more than welcome to as well.

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am lol. I'll drop the codeberg here when it finishes.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I did dig through the data and I would caution against using what they've posted as is. Its all slop. Best bet would be to pull the PDFs and parse or data entry them directly.

[–] in_my_honest_opinion@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I'm tracing from the APIs at

Followthemoney.org Opensecrets.org Open.fec.gov