Facebook Spends Record Amounts On Lobbying, But Not As Much As Google Does
Facebook spent $360,000 on lobbying last quarter, while Google spent more than $2 million on outreach to legislators.
Facebook continues to spend record amounts on lobbying, according to the company’s third quarter filing with the U.S. Senate.
Facebook spent $360,000 last quarter, bringing its lobbying expenditures for 2011 so far to $910,000 — on track to spend more than $1 million this year.
Facebook’s third quarter expenditure is three times what the social network spent during the same period one year ago, and more than the company spent on lobbying, $351,390, in all of 2010.
The third quarter number, which is large compared to the company’s previous filings, is still dwarfed by the spend of other major technology companies in Silicon Valley.
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