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Facebook boosts US lobbying effort

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Internet giants continue heavy lobbying activity in Washington’s corridors of power with Facebook showing the biggest increase in lobbying spend.

IAccording to public disclosure files which require corporations to publish their lobbying spend Facebook increased lobby spending by 277 percent in the first quarter to $2.45 million.  The first-quarter spending is more than half of what Facebook spent for all of 2012.

Google, the biggest spender among the Internet companies, actually cut back in first-quarter spending to $3.35 million, a 33 percent drop.

Amazon increased its spending by 32 percent to $857,000.

Apple is slowly increasing its spending, though its behind  the other Internet giants spending $720,000 in the quarter, an increase of 44 percent.

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