Kazani

This is a genuinely impressive piece of OSINT work. Here's what it found: The core claim: Meta spent a record $26.3M on federal lobbying in 2025 and secretly funded a "grassroots" child safety group called the Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA) to push the App Store Accountability Act (ASAA) legislation that forces Apple and Google to verify user ages before app downloads, while placing zero new requirements on social media platforms like Meta's own. The five confirmed channels: 1. Direct lobbying: 86+ lobbyists across 45 states. A Meta lobbyist literally drafted Louisiana HB-570 and handed it to the bill's sponsor, Rep. Kim Carver, who confirmed this publicly. The bill passed 99-0. 2. DCA astroturf: The Digital Childhood Alliance has no EIN, no state incorporation, no 990 filings, and its domain was registered December 18, 2024 with a fully-formed advocacy site live within 24 hours. Bloomberg confirmed Meta funds it. Under oath, its executive director admitted receiving tech funding but refused to name donors. Every piece of DCA content attacks Apple and Google. Meta is never mentioned. 3. Super PACs: $70M+ across four state PACs deliberately registered at state level (not FEC) to scatter disclosure filings and avoid centralized searchability. 4. Arabella network connection: Meta's Colorado lobbyist simultaneously chairs the New Venture Fund, which funnels $121M/year into the Sixteen Thirty Fund (no donor disclosure required). The investigation analyzed $2B in grants and found zero going to any child safety org ruling out that funding pathway, but the back-channel routes (fiscal sponsorship, consulting fees) remain unproven. 5. State legislative campaigns: ASAA is now law in Utah, Louisiana, and Texas (Texas currently paused by a federal judge). The smoking gun finding: Meta's own LD-2 Senate lobbying filings explicitly list the App Store Accountability Act (H.R. 3149/S. 1586) as a lobbied bill, while simultaneously lobbying on KOSA/COPPA 2.0 supporting legislation that burdens Apple and Google while opposing or seeking to amend legislation that would regulate Meta directly. https://archive.is/qP6kR

HEALTHEX announces a partnership with Microsoft to connect consumers "digital identity, comprehensive health records, and consent infrastructure" to power Copilot Health.

The Psychology of Tyranny ➡️ TLDR; - Governments utilize psychological manipulation to influence thought, emotion, and behavior, often without explicit consent, by exploiting fundamental human needs like security and belonging. - Twelve core psychological manipulation tactics identified include gaslighting, bandwagon effect, scarcity manipulation, framing and narrative control, guilt and moral shaming, FOMO, carrot and stick, othering, cognitive overload, authority bias exploitation, emotional priming, and desensitisation. - Governments employ propaganda, fear-based messaging, nudge tactics, disinformation, censorship, and social credit systems as examples of psychological manipulation. - The 'carrot and stick' approach combines rewards for compliance with punishments for non-compliance, seen in systems like China's social credit system and wartime rationing. - Othering creates an 'us vs. them' dynamic by portraying a group as inferior or threatening, used in contexts like the Israel-Palestine conflict and anti-immigrant rhetoric. - Cognitive overload overwhelms individuals with excessive or conflicting information, making them more likely to rely on authority, as seen during the Brexit referendum and COVID policy rollouts. - Authority bias exploitation leverages trust in figures of authority to promote policies, often by suppressing dissenting experts, exemplified by tobacco regulation and climate policy endorsements. - Emotional priming uses evocative imagery and rhetoric to trigger strong emotions, bypassing rational analysis, as seen in post-9/11 patriotism and atrocity propaganda. - Desensitisation gradually exposes the public to controversial ideas or policies to reduce shock and resistance over time, observed in the normalization of drone strikes and surveillance expansion. - Repeated exposure to psychological manipulation can alter brain function through neuroplasticity, potentially weakening critical thinking, increasing anxiety, and reducing autonomy, though recovery is possible through education and reflection. https://open.substack.com/pub/clarewillsharrison/p/the-ps…

❌ #fdroid security problems: ⁨https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues⁩⁩ ⁨⁨https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1883895255142932816 https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1497272529223917575 ⁨⁨https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/7⁩⁩ ⁨⁨https://github.com/obfusk/fdroid-fakesigner-poc⁩⁩ ⁨⁨https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/issues/2608⁩⁩ ⁨⁨https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/593⁩⁩ ⁨⁨https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/15490-f-droid-or-obtaini… ⁨⁨https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IzpVI4zaso0⁩⁩ ⁨⁨https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lAbgeJau3eE⁩⁩ ⁨⁨https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FFz57zNR_M0⁩⁩ ⁨⁨https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IAoCfrqx⁩⁩

AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name) https://itsfoss.com/news/ai-online-deanonymization/ Imagine this: You're on Reddit, Hacker News, or some forum, posting with a silly username like GamerCat2025 or SecretCoderX. You think you are anonymous, and no one knows you and so you can freely express your thoughts. Well, a brand-new research paper just blew that idea apart. It's called "Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs" which is a fancy way of saying "figuring out the real person behind a secret online name". Research: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800

🥸 Smart glasses detector on your mobile Its author, a sociologist who programs as a hobby, devised an application after seeing how these accessories are used to record people without permission, and considers it a small gesture against constant surveillance. The program checks the typical Bluetooth signals emitted by these devices and sends push notifications to alert. It is now available and its code can be viewed openly. It may not be 100% effective depending on the environmental conditions, but it is a good advancement. You can download it from the PlayStore here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc… and review its code on Github here: https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

How Epstein Hijacked Bitcoin with Aaron Day From the hijacking of Bitcoin to the passing of the GENIUS Act, a deep dive in the Epstein files reveals Epstein's fingerprints are all over the transformation of the global economy and our digital currency enslavement. "The Hijacking of Bitcoin," his detailed and well-documented breakdown of how and why Epstein hijacked #Bitcoin https://corbettreport.com/how-epstein-hijacked-bitcoin/ https://brownstone.org/articles/the-hijacking-of-bitcoin/

Keep Android Open https://keepandroidopen.org https://f-droid.org/2026/02/20/twif.html During out talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most were relieved that Google has canceled their plans to lock-down Android. https://fosdem.org/2026/ Why baffled?  Because no such thing actually happened, the plans announced last August are still scheduled to take place. We see a battle of PR campaigns and whomever has the last post out remains in the media memory as the truth, and having journalists just copy/paste Google posts serves no one. But Google said... Said what? That there's a magical "advanced flow"? Did you see it? Did anyone experience it? When is it scheduled to be released? Was it part of Android 16 QPR2 in December? Of 16 QPR3 Beta 2.1 last week? Of Android 17 Beta 1? No? That's the issue... As time marches on people were left with the impression that everything was done, fixed, Google "wasn't evil" after all, this time, yay! While we all have bad memories of "banners" as the dreaded ad delivery medium of the Internet, after FOSDEM we decided that we have to raise the issue back and have everyone, who cares about Android as an open platform, informed that we are running out of time until Google becomes the gate-keeper of all users devices. Hence, the website and starting today our clients, with the updates of F-Droid and F-Droid Basic, feature a banner that reminds everyone how little time we have and how to voice their concerns to whatever local authority is able to understand the dangers of this path Android is led to. We are not alone in our fight, IzzyOnDroid added a banner too, more F-Droid clients will add the warning banner soon and other app downloaders, like Obtainium, already have an in-app warning dialogue.

Alt-Sendme Send files and folders to anywhere in the world without storing them in the cloud - any size, any format, without accounts and restrictions. A free file transfer tool with open source code, using the capabilities of an advanced peer-to-peer network, allowing you to transfer files directly without storing them on cloud servers. https://github.com/tonyantony300/alt-sendme

You can now run Fedora Atomic OS on your Android Smartphone and Tablet A GitHub project called Pocketblue is providing Fedora Atomic images for mobile devices. https://github.com/pocketblue/pocketblue Pocketblue is an atomic system that relies on OCI, OSTree and Bootc technologies. System images are based on upstream atomic Fedora images (Silverblue/Kinoite) and are built and distributed as OCI containers. NOTE: This is a work-in-progress project. During the installation process all data on your device will be wiped. Use at your own risk. However, the only supported devices are the Xiaomi Pad 5, the Xiaomi Pad 6, and the OnePlus 6/6T. So if you have one of those just lying around, you can give this a try.

Meshtastic ❌ MeshCore ✅