Machine studies

Companies checked against the five tests by Claude, Anthropic's AI model, reading their own public pages and filings. Each one is a first read, not a verdict from me, and every finding links to its source so you can check it. The studies I've done by hand are kept separate.

Run the five tests on a company

• November 4, 2026Machine read

  LinkedIn

  LinkedIn partly meets four of the five tests: self-serve data export, a stated per-license Premium price, a privacy policy organized by data category, and outside regulators who can fine it. It fails the structure test, because Microsoft owns all of it and the only promise of independence is in a press release, not a charter.

• November 4, 2026Machine read

  Meta Platforms, Inc. (meta.com)

  Meta makes leaving easy with a self-serve JSON export, and an FTC order gives an outside assessor real access to its privacy evidence. Its privacy list is only categories, its pricing couldn't be checked on its own pages, and one shareholder's voting control means no charter protects these principles.