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# Effort

> Independent investigations built from primary records, public data, and transparent methods.

Effort publishes complete, claim-oriented Markdown editions of its public reporting. Each edition identifies justifiable claims, exact supporting paragraphs, documentary sources, evidence graphics, and canonical article links for citations.

## Investigations

- [The Anti-Space Space Club.](https://www.effort.news/nasa.md): How NASA became fixated on decolonialism and DEIA
- [Belgium’s Speech Police Are Prosecuting Nathan Cofnas](https://www.effort.news/unia.md): Unia, which receives 82% of its funding from European governments, attacks political dissent and religious groups
- [Effective Altruism is Buying Political Staff](https://www.effort.news/aisi.md): Coefficient Giving's documents show they are "placing" hand-picked staff into government offices
- [HEI: How Covid-Era Financial Engineering Created a $21B Racial Wealth Transfer](https://www.effort.news/hei.md): ESG-like Incentives Ration Care to ‘Reduce Disparities’
- [Is AI Writing American Law?](https://www.effort.news/ai-congress.md): We scanned every bill in the US Congress since 2023 to find out
- [A Single Firm is Behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Hacking Scandals](https://www.effort.news/irregular.md): The Israeli Effective Altruist firm Irregular caused unsecured AI models to hack real targets.
- [Two Tier Counter‑Terror](https://www.effort.news/uk-terror.md): A single ideology was responsible for 32 times more British terror deaths than any other. Why is the British government taking aim at an entirely different group?
- [The Foundations Funding Terrorist Solidarity Letters](https://www.effort.news/antifa.md): The campaign for Autistici/Inventati was Created by the EU and Institutional Donors
- [AI Safety Donors Paid Religious NGOs $3.3M for Statements on AI](https://www.effort.news/revelation.md): Why the new-atheism spinoff is telling believers AI will bring the end times
- [How Effective Altruism Bought the Media](https://www.effort.news/tarbell.md): AI Doomers are Funding Circular Potemkin Articles
- [The EU's Extortion Economy](https://www.effort.news/dsa.md): The Digital Services Act's €50M payout to the European Censorship Industry
- [The 'Decolonial' State-Backed NGOs Behind the Cofnas Cancellation](https://www.effort.news/cofnas.md): Cofnas is the target of a months-long campaign "encouraged" by Rector De Sutter
- [Who Supplies Freedom Fuel?](https://www.effort.news/freedom-fuel.md): Strong Evidence Suggests the Trump-linked Gas Stations are Self-Dealing
- [A Visual Guide to Every Major SpaceX Filing](https://www.effort.news/spacex.md): SpaceX’s largest holders include NVIDIA, Saudi Arabia, and a Canadian teachers’ pension fund.
- [How the EU is Controlling the Ceuta Story](https://www.effort.news/ceuta.md): The Digital Services Act Affects Information Worldwide
- [How to go Viral on the New X Algorithm](https://www.effort.news/x-algorithm.md): A Visual Guide to X’s Open Source Release
- [A Muslim Commission Was Tried in Illinois](https://www.effort.news/muslim-council.md): It Failed Before a Single Recommendation
- [The $1.2B Refugee Services Program that Funds Pro-Asylum Religious Groups](https://www.effort.news/pc.md): Financially, these are migrant contractors with a minor stake in churches
- [The 19th-Century Family Fortunes Funding Degrowth](https://www.effort.news/p4ne.md): How P4NE Hides Its Donor Funding
- [California’s Race-Based Pregnancy Funding](https://www.effort.news/birth-equity.md): DOJ could cut funding to programs exclusively for “Black Women and Birthing People”
- [The UK’s War on Anonymity Has Come to America](https://www.effort.news/uk-lobby.md): The NGOs Behind Britain's Digital ID Laws are Targeting American Statehouses
- [EV Tariffs Driven by Fabricated “Dumping” Claims Cost US Consumers $41.2B](https://www.effort.news/ev.md): US special interests deliberately spread a lie that harmed consumers

## Null results

- [Abliteration AI](https://www.effort.news/null/abliteration-ai.md): Effort investigated government and NGO funding of Abliteration AI. We found none.
- [China Solar Supression](https://www.effort.news/null/china-solar-supression.md): Effort investigated Chinese state funding of American NIMBY and anti-solar protests. We found no previously unreported results. We found some previous reports on Chinese funding of anti-rare earths mining media.
- [Beyond Meat](https://www.effort.news/null/beyond-meat.md): We looked into government subsidy, regulation, or other interference that could have caused the Beyond Meat bubble. We found nothing above our bar of publication (small, insignificant subsidies).
- [Top Ethereum Transactions](https://www.effort.news/null/top-ethereum-transactions.md): Effort investigated the top 100 Ethereum transactions by ETH-denominated volume. We found no newsworthy transactions without prior coverage. The overwhelming majority of these transactions were intra-firm wallet rebalancing.
- [LA Election Prediction Markets](https://www.effort.news/null/la-election-prediction-markets.md): Effort thoroughly investigated the backgrounds and trading behavior of the most profitable 30 accounts and their related crypto addresses in the LA Election Polymarket. We found no evidence of insider trading or other advance knowledge of LA Election results. The majority of the most successful accounts were known Polymarket traders successful across numerous markets, some of whom documented their reasoning for their trades.
- [Median Strategies](https://www.effort.news/null/median-strategies.md): Effort was unable to identify any financial or staffing information for Median Strategies, a polling firm which claims to have published several fake polls.
- [Tariff Evasion](https://www.effort.news/null/tariff-evasion.md): Effort analyzed all 2026 SEC EDGAR filings in search of anomalous filings indicative of tariff evasion. We found no wrongdoing.
- [Ceuta Government Sponsorship](https://www.effort.news/null/ceuta-government-sponsorship.md): We thoroughly searched for government promotion or coordination with the Ceuta attacks, including past collaboration with governments or government-funded NGOs by the group admins. We did not identify any links.
- [FDA Corruption](https://www.effort.news/null/fda-corruption.md): We investigated corruption, bribery, and criminal conflict of interest in FDA approvals since 2017. We found no previously unreported wrongdoing.
- [Memory Prices](https://www.effort.news/null/memory-prices.md): We looked into evidence of insider trading or collusion in the computer memory industry among publicly traded companies. We found no evidence of wrongdoing.
- [Religious Conversions in Congress](https://www.effort.news/null/religious-conversions-in-congress.md): We launched an investigation into religious conversions during office of US Representatives and Senators. We found no identifiable patterns, connected events, or social circles around religious conversion.
- [Grain and Sugar Lobbying](https://www.effort.news/null/foodlobby.md): We found few instances of lobbying or other manipulation of the US food guide. There were only four plausible instances with no systemic pattern.
- [Appeals court are not using AI to write opinions](https://www.effort.news/null/appeals.md): We scanned all Appeals Court opinions since 2022, the year when ChatGPT was released. We found zero opinions written using AI. A small number of opinions quoted from disclosed AI output.
- [ADA Spending / Awards](https://www.effort.news/null/adaspending.md): We found no significant growth in ADA spending or lawsuit awards in the recent years. We also found no significant expansion of LEAP/childhood disability spending.
- [No Disclosed YC Company Circular Revenue](https://www.effort.news/null/circular.md): We searched all YC companies since 2020 for circular revenue contracts/disclosures and found none. So as far as we know, the meme that YC companies are just booking each other as revenue is false.
- [No Wikipedia Straw Accounts for Top 100 Editors](https://www.effort.news/null/wikipedia100.md): We used several text and activity metrics to identify the most similar editor accounts for each of the top 100 editors on wikipedia. We found no evidence of duplicate accounts.

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