Comment by intended

I want to appreciate the fact that the investigation exists, and that someone has made it.

However this is the kind of investigation that Reddit is famous for, which ends up causing more harm than good, like the Boston bombing investigation.

Age verification, for example, is coming no matter what - there’s a big enough chunk of voters tired of tech globally.

Governments are also tired of dealing with tech and want to bring them to heel.

These macro forces are far more significant than the amounts identified on lobbying in this investigation (~$63 mn iirc)

Given the title, the reading of the article implies Meta is driving age verification.

The content of the investigation, reads more as meta taking advantage of the push for age verification to move it to the OS layers.