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Facebook & Amazon emerge as 2 largest company lobbyists, as Big Tech breaks personal spending report in 2020 election cycle report

Big Tech’s impact over government has only grown between the general two election cycles. Facebook and Amazon now outspend an important tobacco and oil giants in terms of purchasing for political prefer, a brand spanking new report states.
Big Tech’s influence over government has only grown between the last two election cycles. Facebook and Amazon now outspend the largest tobacco and oil giants when it comes to buying political favor, a new report states.

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Russia Today has recently written 11 articles on similar topics including :
  1. "Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly among those affected in a mass data leak that revealed users phone numbers". (April 4, 2021)
  2. "Facebook may have breached data protection regulations after the personal information of 533 million of its users was leaked online, Irelands data authority has said, as it announced an investigation into the social media giant". (April 14, 2021)
  3. "A new UK regulator tasked with keeping an eye on tech giants has begun operations, and its first assignment is to draft a code of conduct aimed at improving interactions between platforms and news publishers". (April 7, 2021)
  4. "Iranian media outlet Press TV has condemned Facebook for censorship after its main page was banned on the site yet again, with the platform citing violations of its community standards and stating the move cant be undone". (March 27, 2021)
  5. "A group of pro-censorship activists has laid body bags outside Facebooks Washington, DC office, claiming that disinformation on the platform kills. Like the Biden administration, they want Facebook to censor Covid-skeptics". (July 28, 2021)
  6. "An Australian tech watchdog group has accused Facebook of harvesting the personal data of teenage users who can then be served targeted ads promoting alcohol, smoking, gambling, vaping, online dating sites and extreme weight loss". (April 28, 2021)
  7. "Following Australias lead, Canada has announced that it aims to force Facebook to pay for news content. Ottawa said it would not be intimidated if the tech giant seeks retribution". (February 19, 2021)
  8. "Facebook's mass ban of news publishers in Australia has misfired against numerous unrelated pages, including official state institutions, multiple charities and even health departments and hospitals". (February 18, 2021)
  9. "Britains competition watchdog has said Giphy and Facebook have five days to offer legally binding proposals to address concerns over their merger deal, which could see the social media giant further monopolize digital adverts". (March 25, 2021)
  10. "Facebook VP of global affairs Nick Clegg has blamed users for spreading polarizing content on the platform in a blog defending its algorithms, saying the spread of harmful posts is not simply the fault of faceless machines". (March 31, 2021)
  11. "Apple has announced that it will soon roll out a feature allowing users to block tech companies from tracking activity online and on other apps in a move thats angered Facebook over its impact on data collection". (April 8, 2021)
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