Bran (Brandon) Myers

BRAN (BRANDON)
MYERS

I don't wait for permission. I build, and the world responds to what exists.

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★ Investigations · public-interest · source-verified
The Investigations
A standing body of investigations into how power joins up, surveils and influences — the data state and the influence machine. Built from public records, tiered confirmed / reported / alleged, adversarially fact-checked, and disciplined to credit who broke what and correct the myths as plainly as the findings.
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★ The complete file · July 2026
The Influence Machine
How a foreign government bought an AI-era propaganda operation in Washington — the American commentators (Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens) it named in its own DOJ filings, the four open questions those filings raise, and the far weaker regime that lets the same conduct vanish in Britain. Built from primary records; every claim tiered; the boundaries kept in view.
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★ The capstone · everything, in one frame · + PDF
The Whole Picture: What It All Adds Up To
Everything found and how it actually connects: two machines — one that surveils and sorts, one that persuades — bound not by a conspiracy but by one pattern, the oversight switched off. As careful about what is not connected (no Parscale–Palantir, no Thiel web) as about what is. The single place to start — with a downloadable PDF.
Read the capstone →  ·  brandonmyers.net/writing/the-whole-picture
★ Latest · June 2026 · The AI-influence beat
The First Wave: How States Started Buying AI-Output Shaping
The bigger frame — bigger than any one person. Governments have begun paying to manipulate what AI tells you: Israel’s FARA-registered contract is the first disclosed case; Russia’s ‘Pravda’ network is the only state peer; a commercial “generative engine optimization” industry and a settled poisoning science enable it — while the AI platforms stay silent. With the operatives profiled (SparkFire, the ‘Esther Project’ gap) and the one honest caveat — does it work? — kept in full view.
Read the investigation →  ·  brandonmyers.net/writing/the-first-wave
★ Featured · July 2026 · UK companion
The Other Theatre: Israeli State Influence in Britain
The same state that must register and disclose its influence operation in the US (Parscale’s FARA file) runs one in Britain too — the 2017 Shai Masot affair, closed by the Foreign Office with an apology and no inquiry. Why you never had to know: the UK’s new registration scheme reserves its teeth for Iran and Russia. Tiered, primary-sourced, boundary in view — with a one-page briefing for Parliament.
Read it →  ·  + download the 1-page PDF briefing
I · The data state
Surveillance & record-linkage
How governments quietly join up the records they hold on you — and who runs the operational layer.
The Splink Investigation — 9 parts → Palantir: The Global Footprint The US Database (ICE) The City of London
II · The influence machine
The Parscale Investigation
Trump’s former campaign manager, now a foreign-government influence contractor: the machine, not the mastermind.
The Parscale Investigation — full dossier → The complete record (2011–2026) Foreign agent for Israel (FARA #7649) The Other Theatre: Israel in Britain (UK) — NEW The machine goes south (Latin America)
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What I build

Why I chose Poland

Not for the costs. Not for the tax incentives. I chose Poland because it reminds me of the parts of America that still build things — the work ethic, the directness, the refusal to wait for someone else to fix the problem.

Kielce specifically. Close to where my son Austin's roots run through. I intend to invest here — in infrastructure, in community, in the kind of projects that make a city matter beyond its borders.

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Latest Writing

Investigation · Palantir Worldwide · The Full Catalog
Palantir: The Global Footprint
Investigation · The Software Map · Latest
The Splink Ecosystem: Every App Tied to It
Investigation · The Close · Latest
The Joined-Up State: What It All Adds Up To
Investigation · Latest · Palantir Worldwide
Palantir Goes Global: Every Splink Country
Investigation · Latest · Palantir
The Operational Twin: Palantir & the British State
Investigation · Latest · Global Footprint
Who Actually Uses Splink
Investigation · How It Works · Visual
How Splink Works: No Hack, No Consent, No Opt-Out
Investigation · Latest · Legal Exposure
Ruled Unlawful Next Door
Investigation · Featured
Statistics or Operations?
Investigation · The original report
The Quiet Joining-Up
Architecture
On Building Systems That Hold Up When Reality Gets Messy
Infrastructure
I Deleted Three Million Records and Slept Better
Security Research
How I Zero-Dayed Chrome
SEO
Subdomain Theory
Cryptography
Why I Built Invisible Encryption
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