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* Since 2000, the four largest Big Tech companies – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet/Google, and Facebook – have spent $465,026,307 on federal lobbying. | * Since 2000, the four largest Big Tech companies – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet/Google, and Facebook – have spent $465,026,307 on federal lobbying.<ref>Opensecrets.org</ref> | ||
** $434,474,221 of that total has come since 2010. | ** $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. | * Additionally, nine groups that the four Big Tech companies fund have spent $98,061,827 on federal lobbying since 2000. | ||
Revision as of 18:53, 22 February 2022
- Since 2000, the four largest Big Tech companies – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet/Google, and Facebook – have spent $465,026,307 on federal lobbying.[1]
- $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.
- America’s seven largest banks in the leadup to the financial crisis spent $194,193,858 on federal lobbying from 2000 to 2010.
- From 1996 to 1999, the nation’s largest tobacco companies spent $155,750,398 on federal lobbying, or $261,306,596 in 2021 dollars.
- ↑ Opensecrets.org
