The $5.1 million spree outpaces the company's big tech peers Google, Amazon and Microsoft
In fact, the only entities that outspent Facebook on lobbying for the quarter were the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Realtors, Business Roundtable and the drug lobby PhRMA, according to disclosures filed late Wednesday.
The surge of congressional and executive branch lobbying came as Facebook faces an antitrust suit from the Federal Trade Commission as well as bills that could make it easier for regulators to break up the company. The quarter also marked the beginning of a still-rolling crisis inspired by Haugen, who provided documents to Congress, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the news media backing up accusations that Facebook knowingly concealed data showing the social harm its products inflict.
For the most recent quarter, the company said it lobbied on topics including the package of antitrust bills moving through the House, along with misinformation, content moderation andSince registering its first federal lobbyists in 2009, the company has amassed a small army of them in the nation’s capital, employing 67 of them as of this year spread across nearly two dozen external lobbying firms, according to the money-in-politics nonprofit OpenSecrets.
Facebook’s largest outside lobbying contract last quarter was with the lobbying firm Subject Matter, which is run by Democratic lobbyist and former House leadership aide Steve Elmendorf. Facebook paid the firm $80,000 to lobby on a myriad of issues. It also paid $60,000 to the lobbying firm that employs Biden’s former legislative affairs director from his time as vice president, third-quarter disclosures show.Amazon came in second among the big tech companies, with $4.
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