Follow the money: How we used AI skills in Claude to research a campaign finance investigation
Every campaign dollar raised in Massachusetts leaves a public record on the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OPCF)website: who contributed, how much was given, when it was donated, and where the money was ultimately spent. By scrutinizing the data using AI, we found that at least 76 former state and municipal officeholders kept spending campaign money, totaling more than $6.5 million, after they left office. You can see the final project here.
The project’s data comes from bank-reported expenditures filed with the OPCF, covering 5,629 payments totaling $6,594,253 by 76…
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