View source for Big Tech's lobbying vs other Toxic Industries

* Since 2000, the four largest Big Tech companies – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet/Google, and Facebook – have spent $465,026,307 on federal lobbying.<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2021&id=D000023883</ref><ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2021&id=D000033563</ref><ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2015&id=D000067823</ref><ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2021&id=D000021754</ref>
** $434,474,221 of that total has come since 2010.
* Additionally, nine groups that the four Big Tech companies fund have spent $98,061,827 on federal lobbying since 2000.
** $80,400,019 of that total has come since 2010.
* Big Tech’s federal lobbying total eclipses that of other major toxic industries:
** Since 2010, the nation’s largest opioid manufacturers have spent $282,292,834 on federal lobbying.<ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2010&id=D000000383</ref><ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2010&id=D000000383</ref><ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2010&id=D000000386</ref><ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2010&id=D000029389</ref>
** America’s seven largest banks in the leadup to the financial crisis spent $194,193,858 on federal lobbying from 2000 to 2010.<ref>https://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary%3Fcycle%3D2010%26id%3Dd000000071&ust=1647014820000000&usg=AOvVaw0rpXKW1Y2mZXnqyZVWMAYQ&hl=en</ref><ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2010&id=d000000090</ref><ref>https://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary%3Fcycle%3D2000%26id%3DD000000103&ust=1647015180000000&usg=AOvVaw25vA4C4qDRIpfFzJK4GLQP&hl=en</ref><ref>https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary?cycle=2000&id=D000021891</ref>
** From 1996 to 1999, the nation’s largest tobacco companies spent $155,750,398 on federal lobbying, or $261,306,596 in 2021 dollars.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20000816183424/https:/www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/tobacco/burning.htm</ref>
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