Analysis of Facebook, Apple, Google, Amazon US lobbying: $124M spent on lobbying and campaign donations during 2020 cycle; Facebook and Google are top spenders
An updated analysis of the rise in lobbying and campaign contributions from the Big Tech companies: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
FACT: 94% of members of Congress with jurisdiction over privacy and antitrust issues received money from Big Tech corporate PACs and lobbyists. We need members fighting for the people, not bought out by tech companies. https://www.citizen.org/...
Facebook + Amazon have become the two biggest corporate lobbying spenders in the U.S - They've spent almost twice as much as oil giant ExxonMobil and tobacco company Philip Morris in 2020 https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
To be clear, Facebook spends more on lobbying than any other individual corporation. There are associations and consolidated corporate spenders that spend more. As always, @OpenSecretsDC has all the data: https://www.opensecrets.org/ ... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.co…