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Horizontal signed bar chart of net incentives by racial group, with positive amounts extending right in green and negative amounts extending left in red

HEI: How Covid-Era Financial Engineering Created a $21B Racial Wealth Transfer

ESG-like Incentives Ration Care to ‘Reduce Disparities’
Guardian case study mapping the publisher, reporter, central subject, and quoted experts to documented funding records

How Effective Altruism Bought the Media

AI Doomers are Funding Circular Potemkin Articles
Horizontal bars show quantified DSA award amounts by recipient nationality, with France, the Netherlands, USA, and Ireland shown separately and remaining smaller countries grouped as Other

The EU's Extortion Economy

The Digital Services Act's €50M payout to the European Censorship Industry
Five horizontal stacked bars compare disclosed funding for Kif Kif and four connected organizations

The 'Decolonial' State-Backed NGOs Behind the Cofnas Cancellation

Cofnas is the target of a months-long campaign "encouraged" by Rector De Sutter
Relationship tree connecting UGC and Kazmi-linked station records to Freedom Fuel, MR3 Logistics and US Diesel through a shared Energy Transfer terminal operator

Who Supplies Freedom Fuel?

Strong Evidence Suggests the Trump-linked Gas Stations are Self-Dealing
SpaceX ownership network linking Cursor, xAI, X, Tesla, and major investors

A Visual Guide to Every Major SpaceX Filing

SpaceX’s largest holders include NVIDIA, Saudi Arabia, and a Canadian teachers’ pension fund.
Instagram search results for Ceuta with a migration-information warning and Get migration info button

How the EU is Controlling the Ceuta Story

The Digital Services Act Affects Information Worldwide
Center-zero symlog chart of 15 published action weights used to score posts in X's Home feed, with negative striped bars above a signed middle axis and positive solid bars below it

How to go Viral on the New X Algorithm

A Visual Guide to X’s Open Source Release
Line graph showing total Preferred Communities spending by award date from 2006 through 2024

The $1.2B Refugee Services Program that Funds Pro-Asylum Religious Groups

Financially, these are migrant contractors with a minor stake in churches
Three-panel graphic connecting family fortunes to foundations that fund P4NE

The 19th-Century Family Fortunes Funding Degrowth

How P4NE Hides Its Donor Funding
Stacked bars on a shared dollar scale showing estimated Medicaid and other funding for Birth Equity, Black Infant Health and the Perinatal Equity Initiative

California’s Race-Based Pregnancy Funding

DOJ could cut funding to programs exclusively for “Black Women and Birthing People”
Bipartite graph of overlapping 5Rights, CCDH and Reset Tech legislative engagement

The UK’s War on Anonymity Has Come to America

The NGOs Behind Britain's Digital ID Laws are Targeting American Statehouses
Tesla Model 3 and BYD Seal price comparison with identified cost advantages

EV Tariffs Driven by Fabricated “Dumping” Claims Cost US Consumers $41.2B

US special interests deliberately spread a lie that harmed consumers