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101 sats \ 2 replies \ @Scoresby OP 14 Mar \ parent \ on: Meta's $70m efforts lobbying for age-verification laws Politics_And_Law

I'm feeling weird about this, so I checked on the claims in the first paragraph that includes a named individual:

Casey Stefanski, Executive Director, spent 10 years at NCOSE as Senior Director of Global Partnerships. Unusually, she never appears on any NCOSE 990 filing as an officer, key employee, or among the five highest-compensated staff. A senior director title at a $5.4M organization for a decade with no 990 appearance suggests either below-threshold compensation, an inflated title, or something else about the arrangement.

There is a detailed biography of Stefanski on the DCA website, which confirms that she did work at NCOSE for ten years prior to her starting her tenure as ED at DCA in 2025.

I looked through (visually myself, not using AI because pdfs suck) the NCOSE's 990s for 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 (I couldn't find this one), 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016 and it is true that her name is not listed in Section A "Officers, Directors, Trustees, Key Employees, and Highest Compensated Employees" on any of these. I'm not entirely clear whether she should have been listed on these 990s, but it is the case that many other Director-level people are.

So, at least on this one paragraph, the reddit post is accurate.

I'll also add that the reddit posts description of the various age-verification bills is accurate compared to the other sources I've been tracking over the last year.

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101 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 14 Mar

2024 NCOSE staff page does not list Stefanski, nor does the 2022 staff page, but she is listed on the 2021 staff page. But she has a small picture, while there are 12 people with big pictures. The NCOSE's 990s only list 10 or 12 people, so I suspect the reason Stefanski doesn't show up on the 990s is just that she wasn't senior enough. So on this count, I'd say the reddit post is wrong.

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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 14 Mar
on this count, I'd say the reddit post is wrong.

Or at least translating smoke into fire while unable to pinpoint the source, and attributing it, perhaps or perhaps not, wrongly.

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