https://web.archive.org/web/20260313090844/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/This is incredibly well done open source reaserch that was taken down off of reddit."Meta spent $26.3 million on federal lobbying in 2025 and deployed 86+ lobbyists across 45 states. It funded a nationally active advocacy group (DCA) with no legal existence in the IRS system. It hired Hilltop Public Solutions to simultaneously run its $45M super PAC and coordinate DCA's messaging. It previously hired Targeted Victory to run a covert astroturfing campaign against TikTok using child safety as the narrative frame.This investigation documents all of that with primary sources. A post containing those findings was mass reported on Reddit within hours and suppressed site-wide by automated systems. Whether the reports were organic or coordinated, the outcome is the same: the content was removed from the platform where Meta has both the motive and the documented capability to suppress it.The research is published in a git repository with every source embedded. It does not depend on Reddit's infrastructure to survive. "https://web.archive.org/web/20260313090844/https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings#Linux #privacy #meta #astroturfing #ageverification #FOSS #floss #law #StopChatcontrol #ageverificationlaw #ageverificationpolicy#solidarity
