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19 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 3 stories, 16 comments · first 2026-03-13 · latest 2026-08-07
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Don't worry, DCA to the rescue! https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
comment by troyvit · 2026-08-07 · in New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health -
…tech, who think they will be shielded from liability and make more money off of selling your data. https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
comment by ball_of_lint · 2026-07-18 · in Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds -
…underage users, and since began a heavily funded lobbying push to drag competitors down with them. https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings... Of course, it's probably also been coopted by the neverending stream of…
comment by jrajav · 2026-04-29 · in Online age verification is the hill to die on -
…over "their" platforms. They sure spend billions to "help the vulnerable". Right. Like Meta here: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
comment by megous · 2026-03-20 · in Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps -
…https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_b... https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings --- In general, this is an example of the Martha Mitchell effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M
comment by areoform · 2026-03-17 · in Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill -
…then noted as much or where it has seemingly fetched incorrect files and tried to interpret them ( https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings... ) I am not under the immediate impression that the author has done thorough…
comment by spondyl · 2026-03-14 · in Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation, Institutional Capture -
…view having poked around a little bit as well. This file does not exactly fill me with confidence: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings... In one part of the report, there seems to be this implicit assumption that…
comment by spondyl · 2026-03-14 · in Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act -
…You're not missing anything. It's just an AI generated summary of the original GitHub link https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings I found the original article much easier to read anyways
comment by koshergweilo · 2026-03-13 · in Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act -
…and now it's gone? At least the author posted a link to the dataset in a comment so it survived: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
comment by marcosdumay · 2026-03-13 · in Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act -
…but it links to this GitHub repo that has most of the same information, but in a different format: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
comment by troyvit · 2026-03-13 · in Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act -
They linked to this GitHub project: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
comment by troyvit · 2026-03-13 · in Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act -
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Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Actstory by SilverElfin · 2026-03-13 · 3 comments
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…an article from Bloomberg as evidence, most of their sources are local outlets or tech-focused. https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...
comment by dfxm12 · 2026-03-13 · in Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act -
The guy posted a Ask HN there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361235 https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...
comment by d--b · 2026-03-13 · in Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act -
Re-posting findings, cause somehow OP's message was downvoted: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...
comment by d--b · 2026-03-13 · in I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbying -
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Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Actstory by shaicoleman · 2026-03-13 · 1,051 comments
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…a bit bizarre . Isn't it just a link [0] to their github repository? The same as in OPs post? 0 - https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
comment by SockThief · 2026-03-13 · in I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbying -
Findings: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings...
comment by theseusares · 2026-03-13 · in I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbying -
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I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbyingstory by theseusares · 2026-03-13 · 20 comments