Big Tech's lobbying vs other Toxic Industries

• Since 2000, the four largest Big Tech companies – Amazon, Apple, Alphabet/Google, and Facebook/Meta – have spent $465,026,307 on federal lobbying.
  • $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.