It's a truism on Capitol Hill: Big Internet continues to shell out big bucks to lobby the halls of Congress.
Stepping up its influence game, Facebook increased lobby spending by 277 percent in the first quarter to $2.45 million, according to public disclosure files. The first-quarter spending is more than half of what Facebook spent for all of 2012.
"Clearly Facebook has decided to buy its way into Washington," said John Simpson, director of Consumer Watchdog's privacy project, which analyzed spending by tech companies.
Having resolved its antitrust probe with the Federal Trade Commission, Google, the biggest spender among the Internet giants, actually cut back in first-quarter spending to $3.35
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