Facebook Spends $120,000 on Lobbying in Third Quarter 2010
Facebook spent $120,000 on lobbying in the third quarter this year, double what the company paid last quarter to reach government officials and elected representatives and roughly what it spent last year during the same time.
The social network lobbied the usual suspects — The Department of Homeland Security, The Federal Trade Commission, The State Department, and members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. It also reached out to the White House’s National Economic Council, which makes sense as the company recently poached the council’s chief of staff Marne Levine to be its vice president of global public policy.
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