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 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
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 machine goes south (Latin America)
EP26025007.1
European Patent Filed
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Languages Supported
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Global Nodes
CVSS 9.6
Vulnerability Disclosed

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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