Meta broke its own lobbying record and easily outspent its peers, lobbying on issues including kids online safety, content moderation, competition, and encryption.
Meta had its biggest lobbying quarter ever in the first few months of 2024, spending a record $7.6 million engaging with the US government, according to its public lobbying filing released last week. It’s a 64 percent jump from its spending in the fourth quarter of 2023 and represents more than a third of what Meta spent on lobbying the entirety of last year.
The most significant piece of tech legislation to pass recently was a bill that could ban TikTok unless its China-based parent company, ByteDance, divests it within a year — a law that Meta stands to directly benefit from if one of its closest competitors is forced to exit the US market. But Meta’s lobbying disclosure does not specifically list that bill as one it engaged on or the foreign aid package in which it passed.
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