Facebook Hired 3 Lobbyist Firms That Prefer Face Time

Facebook is supplementing its strong internal staff of lobbyists with three outside lobbying firms that rarely use social media sites.

Facebook’s second quarter federal lobbying disclosures revealed more than just the $550,000 the company spent lobbying in the first half of the year.

The reports also identified three lobbying firms employed by the social networking site: Elmendorf Strategies; Fierce Isakowitz & Blalock and Telemedia Policy Corp.

Facebook already has a strong, internal government affairs shop, balanced equally among Republicans and Democrats and featuring former officials from the upper echelon of government, such as Joel Kaplan, who served in the Bush administration.

It’s not unusual for a company to turn to outside support, even with an internal team as strong as the one Facebook has assembled.

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