Facebook increased its lobbying spending during the second quarter of 2012, allocating $960,000, or three times as much as during the same three-month period in 2011, according to disclosure forms obtained by The Hill.
In total, Facebook has spent $1.61 million over the first half of 2012 lobbying on behalf of such issues as consumer and corporate privacy, “do not track,” patent reform, child safety online, social network energy-consumption tools and various other issues, targeting specific agencies including Congress, the State Department and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
(H/T: VentureBeat)
