Papers, Please: The Age-Gated States of America
A 27-state map of age-verification laws, paired with the VPN search spike each law triggered.
The angle
Twenty-seven US states now require age verification to access adult content, and every one of those laws has produced the same side effect: a spike in searches for VPNs the week it took effect. Nobody had put the two datasets side by side.
The data
State-by-state population under age-verification laws, sourced from the statutes themselves, paired with Google Trends search interest for VPN terms in each state around the law’s effective date.
The asset
An interactive map of the 27 states with the population covered, the effective date, and the search spike for each, plus a national index of how much VPN interest each law generated.
Coverage
[Coverage list: publication, DR, date, link. Updated as placements land.]
Result
[Links earned, DR 50+ domains, top placement, where the story appears in AI answers.]
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