Lobby virksomhed part 4
5. Meta Keeps International and US Child Safety Lobbying Completely Separate
I cross-referenced Meta's 18 EU retained lobbying firms against US lobbying registrations.
Three firms confirmed operating for Meta in both jurisdictions:
Firm EU Role US Connection
Trilligent (APCO Worldwide subsidiary) EUR 680K for AI Act, DMA, DSA APCO offices in DC; Meta VP calls them "integrated members of our Meta team"
White & Case LLP EUR 50-100K, digital markets/services Lead international outside counsel, 70+ lawyer team
FTI Consulting Belgium EUR 10-25K Subsidiary of FTI Consulting Inc (NYSE: FCN, HQ Washington DC)
None of these firms touch child safety or age verification for Meta. The child safety lobbying runs through entirely separate state-level firms: Headwaters in Colorado, Pelican State Partners in Louisiana. None of Meta's US federal lobbying firms (Avoq, Mindset, Blue Mountain) have EU operations.
International regulatory work (AI Act, DSA, DMA) goes through global firms. Age verification lobbying goes through state-level specialists with no international footprint. Two separate networks, no overlap.
Sources: EU Transparency Register via LobbyFacts.eu, OpenSecrets, Senate LDA filings, firm websites
The Global Picture
30+ jurisdictions introduced age verification legislation within 18 months (October 2024 to March 2026). Meta spends EUR 10 million per year on EU lobbying. 30 lobbyists. 18+ consulting firms. 277 European Commission meetings over a decade, including meetings specifically on "Children on internet protection" and "Minor protection online."
RSF (Reporters Without Borders) documented 2,977 lobbying actions by Meta and Google across 10+ countries. Same playbook everywhere: astroturfing, revolving door hiring, front groups, disinformation. In Brazil, former President Michel Temer acted as an intermediary for big tech. Meta ran paid ads falsely claiming regulation would "ban the Bible."
Meta failed to shift the compliance burden outside the US. The ASAA puts verification on app stores and devices. In Brazil, the EU, UK, and Australia, the burden falls on platforms directly. The ASAA playbook worked in four US states. It worked nowhere else.
Sources: Corporate Europe Observatory, LobbyFacts.eu, RSF/Agencia Publica cross-country investigation, HRW, IAPP, EFF
All Findings Are Now Public and Off Big-Tech Platforms
Everything is at https://tboteproject.com
The repository can be found at https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/attestation-findings
The research repository contains all source documents, IRS 990 analyses, state lobbying data, API query results, and disclosure PDFs. Every finding sourced from public records: IRS filings, state lobbying disclosures, PAC filings, campaign finance databases, corporate registries, congressional APIs, EU transparency registers, UK charity filings, and archived websites.
You are free to fork, clone, or otherwise share these files. I encourage you to email your favorite YouTubers or forward it to trust worthy media.
What's Next
March 16, 2026: February monthly disclosures due in Colorado, the first filings covering SB26-051 activity
March 17, 2026: Brazil's Digital ECA takes effect
CORA and FOIA responses pending from Colorado SOS, Colorado AG, and Louisiana Ethics Board
Still needed: DCA fiscal sponsor confirmation, Casey Stefanski's NCOSE "Global Partnerships" role, bill text comparison across jurisdictions
Sources (all public records)
IRS 990 filings: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (ICMEC 2022-2024, ConnectSafely 2017-2024)
UK Charity Commission: Childnet International (1080173), FOSI UK (1095268)
Brazil: Chamber of Deputies API (dadosabertos.camara.leg.br)
EU lobbying: LobbyFacts.eu, Corporate Europe Observatory, EU Transparency Register
Cross-country investigation: RSF, Agencia Publica, CLIP
US lobbying: OpenSecrets, Senate LDA filings, Colorado SOS, Texas Ethics Commission
Reporting: Bloomberg, HRW, IAPP, EFF, Biometric Update
All other sources can be found on the repository

Lobby virksomhed part 3

4. Meta's Representative Appeared at Brazilian Congressional Hearings
Brazil's Digital ECA (PL 2628/2022, enacted as Lei 15.325/2025) takes effect March 17, 2026. Compliance burden falls on platforms directly. Self-declaration banned for age verification. Parental consent required for minors under 16. Fines up to 10% of Brazilian revenue.
I queried the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies open data API (dadosabertos.camara.leg.br).
Five public hearings across the Senate and Chamber. Tais Niffinegger, Meta's "Manager of Public Policy for Safety and Well-being," appeared at two:
Date Body Other Platforms Present
May 15, 2024 Senate CCDD Google, YouTube, TikTok
June 11, 2025 Chamber CCOM Google
The Chamber hearing where Meta appeared was framed as "digital education, parental controls and inclusion." Softest framing of the five. The bill's rapporteur, Dep. Jadyel Alencar, personally invited Niffinegger (REQ 9/2025). Deputies Marangoni and Cleber Verde filed requests to add Google and the Entertainment Software Association; their justification language mirrors industry talking points.
The bill passed. Industry lobbying stripped the loot box ban from the Chamber version. The Senate put it back in the final text.
Hearing 3: "Digital Education, Parental Controls and Inclusion" - June 11, 2025
Event ID: 76693 Time: 3:30 PM - 8:08 PM Location: Anexo II, Plenário 11 Request: REQ 9/2025 CCOM (by Dep. Jadyel Alencar) Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w64FybZifnw
Invited Speakers (10 confirmed):
Roberta Rios - Manager of Public Policy, GOOGLE
Taís Niffinegger - Manager of Public Policy, META
Others listed in repository files
Deputy Party/State Action
Jadyel Alencar REPUBLICANOS/PI Filed REQ 7, 8, 9, 21/2025 (rapporteur). REQ 9 directly invited Meta representative. REQ 21 added IDEC + Ricardo Campos
Marangoni UNIÃO/SP Filed REQ 13/2025 adding Google, YouTube, and STRIMA to hearing 3
Cleber Verde MDB/MA Filed REQ 16, 17/2025 adding ESA to hearings 2 and 3
Sources: Brazilian Chamber of Deputies API (dadosabertos.camara.leg.br/api/v2), event IDs and REQ documents from API responses

Lobby virksomhed META! part 1
TL;DR: Four new findings. (1) ICMEC, the nonprofit that authored Meta's preferred age verification model bill, is $2.28 million in debt and kept alive by board member loans totaling $1.1M, yet produced a full legislative toolkit aligned with Meta's lobbying position. Meta is a confirmed $25K+ donor. (2) ConnectSafely's $100K/year UK wire most likely goes to Childnet International, a co-member of Meta's Safety Advisory Board since 2009. The UK Charity Commission is currently investigating Childnet for censoring young ambassadors who criticized a funder. (3) Meta sent a named representative to two Brazilian congressional hearings on the Digital ECA, invited directly by the bill's rapporteur. (4) Three of Meta's EU lobbying firms also operate in the US, but Meta keeps its child safety lobbying completely compartmentalized from its international operations. The full investigation, all source documents, and the research repository are now public at
Everything is at https://tboteproject.com
The repository can be found at https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/attestation-findings
What I Did
Follow-up to my previous posts about Meta's $26.3M federal lobbying operation, the DCA exposure, ConnectSafely's 9-year donor concealment, and the Heritage Foundation pipeline. This round focused on international connections: who funds the organizations writing the model legislation, where ConnectSafely's UK money goes, and whether Meta's US influence playbook extends to Brazil and Europe.
1. ICMEC Is Nearly Insolvent and Meta Funds It
ICMEC (International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children, EIN 22-3630133) authored the Digital Age Assurance Act (DAAA), the model bill that shifts age verification from social media platforms to device and OS manufacturers. Meta is a confirmed $25K+ donor.
I pulled three years of ICMEC's 990 XML filings (2022-2024).
Financial picture:
Metric FY 2024 FY 2023 FY 2022
Revenue $3.80M $5.02M $3.51M
Expenses $4.47M $5.61M $5.15M
Net Assets -$2.28M -$1.64M -$1.09M
Employees 13 21 21
Negative net assets every year, getting worse. Revenue down 24% year over year. Headcount dropped from 21 to 13.
Their 2024 audit flagged "substantial doubts regarding the organization's ability to meet financial obligations."
Board members are personally loaning money to keep it running:
Lender Role Outstanding Balance
Franz Humer Board Member (retired Chairman, Roche/Diageo) $807,000
Sally Paul Board Chair $210,000
Rick Li Board Member (Goldman Sachs) $100,000
Total $1,117,000
With $1.1M in board loans and negative $2.28M net assets, ICMEC still managed to produce model legislation, a constitutional analysis, a technical whitepaper, FAQs, a dedicated website (ageverificationpolicy.org), Virginia General Assembly testimony, and co-sponsorship of California AB-1043. All in 2024-2025.
Their largest expense category: "Other professional fees" at $952K. That money paid for the DAAA policy work.
No external grants anywhere in the filings. No Schedule I filed in any year. The only outgoing money goes to ICMEC's own Singapore subsidiary ($170-206K/year).
ICMEC Australia Ltd holds $13.9M in assets. The parent holds $1.05M. ICMEC loaned $868K to the Australian subsidiary in 2023. The filings do not explain why the subsidiary has 13x the parent's assets.
Sources: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (990 XML object IDs: 202513219349317586, 202433209349302068, 202303179349304730), ICMEC supporters page, ageverificationpolicy.org

US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar sprayed with unknown substance at Minneapolis town hall

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Top 10. Three countries. Overnight.
#5 #6 #8
Zero ad spend. Zero permission asked.
Just people who wanted something different - and found each other.

Gode nyheder. Folk flygter fra TikTok i USA med mere.

Chris Menahan @infolibnews skriver:

WATCH: TikTok's new CEO, Adam Presser, told the World Jewish Congress last year how TikTok banned criticism of "Zionists."

You can say, "You're a proud Zionist," but if you're calling someone a "Zionist" as a pejorative, then "that gets designated as hate speech," he said.

https://x.com/infolibnews/status/2015219910775816670?s=20

Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand:
Turns out that freedom of speech was when TikTok was Chinese.

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/2015648175286267933?s=20

Sjovt og måske ikke så sjovt. i USA har de lige stemt for at man ikke skal fjerne H.R.7148 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026.
begge fløje har stemt for at opretteholde (kill switch i amerikanske køretøjer).
og have betyder det så.

i alle produceret amerikanske køretøjer er der indbygget en kill switch hvor myndigheder kan ( fjern slukke/stoppe en bil) Tesla, Ford osv.

Dette er ikke et ny tiltag men noget alle de amerikanske producenter som ved lov, har og er forpligtet til at indbygge.

Så mon ikke det også er i de amerikanske bilmærker her i EU

kilde: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7148

Så kom Det Hvide Hus til at håne musikeren Jack White:

BREAKING: The White House melts down and attacks music legend Jack White after he insults Donald Trump's "disgusting" and "vulgar" redecoration of the White House — prompting White to unleash a scathing takedown for the ages.
MAGA should have just left well enough alone...
“Jack White is a washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career,” claimed White House spokesman Steven Cheung.
In truth, White is still enormously popular and successful, far more so than any of the actually washed up musicians and "celebrities" that
MAGA likes to trot out as Trump supporters.
“It’s apparent [White]’s been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of ‘The People’s House,'” Cheung added.
The idea that agreeing with Trump's infamously tacky interior design sensibilities is a prerequisite for being a "real artist" is laughable. Donald Trump has always had awful taste in aesthetics.
Cheung's remarks led to White posting a lengthy screed on Instagram, in which he listed off Trump's staggering number of failures and scandals—
"Listen, I’m an artist and not a politician so I’m in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I’m not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn’t me calling out trump’s blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous 'wall' construction, his attacks on the disabled, his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake 'gunshot to the ear' that he showed no medical records or photographs of, his constant, constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. etc." White wrote.
"No, it wasn’t me calling out any of that, it was the f*cking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults," he continued. "How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? 'Masquerading as a real artist'? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here’s my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being."
"He’s masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy," he wrote. "He’s been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he’s involved in has prospered except by using other people’s money to find loophole
after loophole and grift after grift."
"His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and fomenting hatred and division in this country on a daily basis," White went on. "And I have 'ample time on (my) hands'? That orange grifter has spent more tax payer money cheating at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There is no progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy."
"So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain’t spending any money on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremacist country club rich idiot agenda," he continued."
"Wow, he hates who you hate....good for you, be proud of yourselves, how christian of you all," White went on.
"The only way you can support this conman is because you are a victim of the 2 party system and you 'defend your guy no matter what he does.'" he wrote. "No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankruptor of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc."
"This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over," wrote White. "This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality
television stars."

Carlos Latuff
2017!

PS:
‘Everybody but me has an AIPAC person…it’s like your babysitter. Your AIPAC babysitter who is always talking to you for AIPAC.’

-Congressman Thomas Massie, USA.

AIPAC har ikke kunnet købe ham, ser det ud til!