Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (May 15, 2023)
Hacker News Top Stories
Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for May 15, 2023 :
LobbyFacts – Exposing Lobbying in the European Institutions |
Summary: The website LobbyFacts provides a platform for journalists, activists, and researchers to search, sort, filter, and analyze data from the official EU Transparency Register, tracking lobbyists and their influence at the EU level over time. Users can search for information on the biggest lobby spenders, which lobby consultancies are working for which corporate interests, whether companies are spending more on lobbying than last year, and who is lobbying on the latest EU hot topic. The website warns that almost all data is declared by the registrants themselves, which means it has not necessarily been independently verified as accurate. Users can search for lobby organizations, accredited persons, lobby clients, and topics, among other categories. The search can be filtered by country of origin, Belgian office, European Parliament passholder, and high-level European Commission meetings. The data on the website is as of May 15, 2023, and includes a total of 12,177 results.