Command Center · DATAVISM

◢ OPERATIONS 31 OPEN

TRACKING

Companies you have never heard of legally sell your location history, browsing behavior and inferred political views — California forces them to register under their real names.

MONEY

Since 2022 every organization lobbying the German federal government must register publicly — including how many staff it deploys and how much it spends on influence.

MONEY

Every German MP must disclose secondary income — but "disclosed" does not mean easy to find or to compare.

FEED

The largest platforms in Europe must now report every content-moderation decision they make — 2.4 billion in six months — and the data is public.

MONEY

EU lobbying disclosures are self-reported — but aggregated, they reveal which private interests buy the most access to European policymakers.

FUTURE

For decades national emissions were self-reported by governments — Climate TRACE now tracks 745 million individual emitting sources via satellite and AI, independent of what states claim.

MONEY

Every Indian election candidate must declare their criminal cases, assets and liabilities in a sworn affidavit — MyNeta makes 20 years of those declarations searchable by name, party and constituency.

MONEY

Since 2015 Brazilian corporations are banned from funding campaigns — yet the public electoral-court database shows who funds candidates, how much, and whether those donors also hold government contracts.

MONEY

More than 810,000 offshore entities — shells, trusts and foundations used to hide wealth across 200 countries — are searchable in one public database built from the Panama and Pandora Papers and three more leaks.

FUTURE

Near-real-time satellite alerts show exactly where tropical forest is disappearing — to the hectare — linked to palm oil, cattle, mining and illegal logging across every tropical country.

MONEY

South Africa's Treasury publishes every department's budget allocation and actual expenditure since 2016 — revealing what was promised, what was spent, and where the gaps are.

TRACKING

OpenSanctions aggregates 386 official sanctions lists and politically-exposed-persons registries into one searchable database — the same data banks are legally required to check, now open to anyone.

FEED

Every 15 minutes GDELT processes the world's news in 100+ languages and maps every event, tone and named actor — making it possible to measure which crises get covered and which are ignored.

TRACKING

Every Android app may carry invisible passengers — Exodus audited 279,000+ apps, found 432 distinct trackers.

MONEY

$1T/yr in aid recorded in one open standard — yet recipients can't track where it lands.

MONEY

104 countries require companies to disclose who really owns them; Open Ownership stitches it together.

TRACKING

The 14 most powerful tech platforms scored on every policy affecting your speech and privacy — none passed.

TRACKING

14,900+ documented deployments of drones, facial recognition, predictive policing across 6,000 US jurisdictions.

FUTURE

Every country's emissions by sector & fuel, independently calculated by EU scientists — not self-reported.

FUTURE

100+ scientists publish the definitive accounting of carbon emitted — and how little land/ocean absorbed.

MONEY

TJN ranks 141 jurisdictions by how aggressively their laws let the wealthy hide money — top enablers surprise.

MONEY

Every US federal contract/grant/loan since 2001 — $6.8T/yr — queryable with no API key.

MONEY

30 years of Philippine local election results + fiscal spending in one free DB — dynasties → budget control.

MONEY

Every Colombian public contract logged in one open DB back to 2011 — cross-reference contractors with donors.

MONEY

Ghana ran Africa's first OCDS national e-procurement (2019); full contracting data free to download.

MONEY

Every Argentine executive official must publicly disclose full assets — open format from 2012 on.

MONEY

Ukraine put every government tender online in real time — incl. wartime contracts: who supplies the state.

MONEY

Chile's Mercado Público logs every contract from 850 state agencies; full OCDS 2018–2022 downloadable.

FUTURE

Every company reporting under the GHG Protocol must publish two Scope 2 numbers for the same electricity — and may pick which one carries its climate story. Meridian put the standard on trial for Microsoft and Google; the replication is open.

MONEY

Benford's law convicts honest data more often than folklore admits. Meridian's standing docket runs three classic fraud tests against World Bank data of known provenance — two trials in, the tests convicted 2 of 5 clean series.

TRACKING

AI-text detectors get students expelled — on false-positive rates their vendors state as near zero and independent studies measure at up to 18%. Meridian issued the calibration certificate; auditing one more detector is open.

◢ SIGNAL MIX BY SYSTEM

31 CASES

TRACKING 6

MONEY 18

FEED 2

FUTURE 5

◢ GLOBAL INVESTIGATION MAP 31 SOURCES · NATURAL EARTH · WGS-84

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ACTIVE OP

TRACKING

MONEY

FEED

FUTURE

◢ ASSIGNED OPERATIONS 4 OPEN

OP · LOBBY-REGISTER-DE MONEY

Which organisations spent the most on lobbying the Bundestag in the last reporting year — and what did they target?

PUBLIC SOURCE Lobbyregister des Deutschen Bundestages

METHOD 1/6

OP · SCOPE2-TWIN-INVOICE FUTURE

For one more tech company: what do its two mandatory Scope 2 figures — market-based and location-based — show for the latest reported year, and which of the two carries its public climate narrative?

◇ DERIVED FROM “THE TWO METERS” · MERIDIAN

PUBLIC SOURCE GHG Protocol Scope 2 Guidance + your target company’s own report

METHOD 1/6

OP · WORLDBANK-DIGIT-DOCKET MONEY

Run a digit test (Benford first-digit or last-digit uniformity) on one more World Bank indicator: does it flag data of known provenance — and what innocent mechanism could explain the flag?

◇ DERIVED FROM “THE STANDING DOCKET” · MERIDIAN

PUBLIC SOURCE World Bank Open Data API

METHOD 1/6

OP · DETECTOR-CALIBRATION TRACKING

For one deployed AI-text detector: what accuracy or false-positive rate does the vendor claim — and what did an independent, peer-reviewed measurement find under comparable conditions?

◇ DERIVED FROM “CALIBRATION CERTIFICATE” · MERIDIAN

PUBLIC SOURCE RAID benchmark — Dugan et al., ACL 2024

METHOD 1/6

◢ LINES STATUS 5

FOUNDATION ASK BETTER. COMMAND CLEANER. VERIFY HARDER.

0 CASES

TRACKING & OSINT TRACE THE WATCHERS.

6 CASES

ECONOMY & POWER FOLLOW THE VALUE.

18 CASES

FEEDS & BEHAVIOR DECODE THE FEED.

2 CASES

CLIMATE & FUTURE READ THE LONG SIGNAL.

5 CASES