Facebook multiplied its lobbying spending fiftyfold in eight years

Evidence

Between 2009 and 2017, the company increased its lobbying spend by a factor of fifty, building “a massive lobbying entourage of Washington power brokers.” Facebook’s 4.6 million in donations during the 2016 election cycle complemented its lobbying budget of 11.5 million in 2017. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 786