Amazon, Facebook set Washington Lobbying Spending Records
Big Tech Lobbying: Outlays come as Big Tech increasingly find itself in Washington’s cross hairs.
Amazon with its subsidiaries and Facebook’s parent company set records in their spending on Washington lobbying last year with outlays of at least M$20.3 and M$20.1, respectively, according to disclosures filed late Thursday and past filings aggregated by OpenSecrets.
The e-commerce giant AMZN, -3.81% and Meta Platforms FB, -2.34%, then known as Facebook, had set records in 2020 with their lobbying spending of just under and above M$19, and now their 2021 outlays have exceeded those totals.
Amazon and Meta rank as the leaders in lobbying spending among the country’s five biggest technology companies by market value, exceeding the other giants’ outlays. Alphabet parent Google GOOG, -0.71% GOOGL, -0.64% and its subsidiaries shelled out at least M$11.5 last year, Microsoft MSFT, -0.07% spent M$10.3, and Apple AAPL, -0.64% paid out M$ 6.5.
