{"id":2005,"date":"2017-10-24T00:57:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T00:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2017-10-24T00:57:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T00:57:50","slug":"amazon-facebook-and-google-beef-up-lobbying-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/amazon-facebook-and-google-beef-up-lobbying-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, Facebook and Google beef up lobbying spending"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nFacebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. (Eric Risberg\/AP)<\/span><\/div>\n

Facebook, Google and Amazon bolstered their lobbying spending in the past three months as Washington has taken a closer look at the market\u00a0power\u00a0of some of America’s biggest tech companies.<\/p>\n

Facebook spent $2.85 million lobbying the federal government in the third quarter, up 41 percent from the same period last year, according to disclosure reports made public late Friday. Part of that amount was dedicated\u00a0to lobbying\u00a0officials in Congress and the White House on \u201conline advertising, content and platform transparency efforts.\u201d The lobbying comes as the social network, along with Google and Twitter, faces a new bipartisan push\u00a0on Capitol Hill that would force Internet companies to disclose more information about political ads sold and distributed on their platforms.<\/p>\n

The lawmakers behind\u00a0proposed ad transparency legislation<\/a>\u00a0said the bill is designed to prevent another\u00a0Russian-backed disinformation\u00a0campaign<\/a>\u00a0that ran on an array of Web platforms during the 2016 election.\u00a0Facebook said that it will take its own steps to increase the transparency of political ads and that it generally supports legislative efforts to do the same.<\/p>\n

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