No, it has nothing to do with the fake news we hear so much about. But rather a very interesting project Steven Ballmer has put together.
It's a database for govt spending both federal and state. He calls it the first ever 10k financial report on our govt.
You will be able to easily look up how many cops are employed in your area at what cost. How much ticket revenue is collected and so on, as a quick example.
No idea how deep the database goes or how far into local govts, but anything is better than nothing.
He's been working on it with a team for the last 3 years so it should be interesting to see what they've put together.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/1...erer=&referer=