A standing body of public-interest, source-verified investigations into how power joins up, surveils, and influences — the data state and the influence machine. Everything here is built from public records, tiered confirmed / reported / alleged, adversarially fact-checked, and disciplined to credit who broke what and to correct the myths as plainly as the findings. The full evidence — every contract, citation, primary filing and archived source — is in the public repository.
I. The data state — surveillance & record-linkage
How governments quietly join up the separate records they hold on you, and who runs the operational layer.
• The Splink Investigation — the nine-part series on the UK government’s record-linkage tool — lawful, undisclosed, and sliding from statistics into live operations. Start at the hub.
• Palantir: The Global Footprint — the 16-sector, source-verified catalog of every Palantir deployment worldwide — and every court, regulator and investor pushing back.
• The US Database — how ICE joins up government, biometric and commercial records to locate people for removal — the American counterpart, from the government’s own files.
• The City of London — unaccountable by design: the Square Mile’s governance, its private fortune beyond Freedom of Information, and the national fraud database it runs.
II. The Parscale investigation — the influence machine
Trump’s former campaign manager, now a foreign-government influence contractor. The honest through-line: he builds a deceptive persuasion machine, for hire, foreign and domestic — not the disinformation mastermind of legend.
• The Parscale Investigation — the full dossier — start here. Four interlinked parts + the evidence archive.
• — The Machine, Not the Mastermind — the complete information-operations record, 2011–2026, myths corrected.
• — Registered Foreign Agent for Israel — the FARA Clock Tower X AI-influence apparatus, built to bend ChatGPT and Claude.
• — The Machine Goes South — the Numen operation across Argentina, Bolivia and Honduras.
• — Press & media kit — the citable facts and original forensics, free to republish.
III. The AI-influence beat
The bigger frame the Parscale work opened — bigger than any one person: the first wave of states buying AI-output shaping.
• The First Wave — how states started buying the manipulation of what AI tells you — the first FARA-disclosed case (Israel/Parscale), the only state peer (Russia’s ‘Pravda’ network), the commercial toolchain, and the platforms’ silence; with the effectiveness dispute kept in full view.
The thread that connects them
One throughline runs through all of it: the most consequential systems — the ones that surveil, sort, and persuade whole populations — increasingly operate with the oversight switched off. Under-threshold or sole-source contracts, no published impact assessments, foreign ownership at the operational end, disclosed influence that almost no one is told about. The work doesn’t allege crimes; it documents the accountability gap — and asks the prior question nobody was asked.
Method & evidence
Every claim is tiered and sourced to primary documents where they exist (FARA filings, FEC records, court rulings, procurement notices). Allegations are labelled and never asserted as fact; the strongest claims others made first are credited to them; and what is not established — the overstatements and myths — is corrected as plainly as the findings. Full repository, primary filings, graphics and archived sources: github.com/btmaffiliate/uk-data-linkage-disclosure. Built from public sources only; not legal advice.