The recent Facebook outage has received major backlash from the public as well as government officials. Is it time to evolve past the use of FB or will there be more strict regulations within the coming months?
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Interesting that Oculus (owned by fb) gave to almost all Republican politicians, while every other company under Facebook gave to Democrats.
They spent a total of $19.68 million on lobbying in 2020.
List below is the lobbying firms that they worked with last year.
Facebook, Inc - $15.42 Million*
(*This is what they spent on internal employees required to register as lobbyists)
Salt Point Strategies - $480,000
FS Vector - $250,000
Harbinger Strategies - $240,000
Capitol Tax Partners - $240,000
Steptoe & Johnson - $240,000
Sternhell Group - $240,000
Peck Madigan Jones - $240,000
Subject Matter - $240,000
theGROUP DC - $240,000
Baker & Hostetler - $200,000
Elevate Government Affairs - $200,000
Blue Mountain Strategies - $180,000
Telemedia Policy Corp - $180,000
Off Hill Strategies - $167,500
Stewart Strategies & Solutions - $160,000
Ogilvy Government Relations - $120,000
OB-C Group - $120,000
Ice Miller Strategies - $120,000
Lugar Hellmann Group - $90,000
Hollier & Assoc - $90,000
Mason Street Consulting - $80,000
Bryan, Cave et al - $40,000
David Wade/GreenLight Strategies - $30,000
Alpine Group - $30,000
RMP Strategies - $25,000
Hilltop Advocacy - $20,000
How much do they give to specific politicians? $7.97 million total, breakdowns on where it went are available here
Facebooks PAC raised $564K and donated $352K to federal candidates
Source for all this data is the awesome OpenSecrets.org
Edit: Added the $15.42 million spent on lobbyists that work directly for Facebook. Also, worth noting, this is only the numbers for people that are required to REGISTER as lobbyists (and there are several of loopholes on that). Likely tons of internal employees that support FB's lobbying efforts that are not included in these numbers m
I’m interested in finding out just how much money Facebook spends lobbying.
Also, what Washington lobby firms do they use?
Also, how much campaign money they give (donate whatever) to specific politicians?
Do they fund any PACs?
Facebook pays for and has a lot of influence in Washington.