An investigation of the forces behind the age-verification bills

Reddit user "Ok_Lingonberry3296" has posted theresults of an extensive investigation into the companies that arepushing US state legislatures to enact age-verification bills.

I've been pulling public records on the wave of "age verification"bills moving through US state legislatures. IRS 990 filings, Senatelobbying disclosures, state ethics databases, campaign financerecords, corporate registries, WHOIS lookups, Wayback Machinearchives. What started as curiosity about who was pushing thesebills turned into documenting a coordinated influence operationthat, from a privacy standpoint, is building surveillanceinfrastructure at the operating system level while the companybehind it faces zero new requirements for its own platforms.

(See also this article for a look at theCalifornia law.)