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January 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Facebook Inc. contributed $1.35 million to lobby various tech-related efforts last year, breaking the $1 million mark for the first time.
During the last quarter of 2011, Facebook donated $440,000, targeting issues including international regulation of software companies and restrictions on Internet access by foreign governments.
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Facebook continually lobbies for online security measures for private industry, data storage, online safety for Internet users, the Do Not Track Kids Act, proposed amendment to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 to protect personal information of children, the Video Privacy Protection Act and various patent legislation.
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This is the largest amount Facebook has ever contributed in a quarter — nearly double the $230,000 set aside for Congress in the first quarter (along with the $320,000 in the second quarter and $360,000 in third quarter), according to AllFacebook.com, whose report added up the public lobbying amounts filed by the social media giant.
This immense lobbying effort follows Facebook’s expansion of the Public Policy Facebook team based in Washington, D.C. last year. The company hired former George W. Bush Deputy Chief of Staff Joel Kaplan as its vice president of U.S. public policy in June, and former White House employee Myriah Jordan as Facebook’s congressional relations policy manager soon after.
Facebook’s competitor Google remains on the top of the list of tech companies that have contributed the most to lobbyists. Google spent $9.98 million in federal lobbying in 2011, according to reports. Microsoft spent $7.34 million. Hewlett-Packard, Oracle Corp and IBM close out the top five tech companies with the highest lobbying expenditures, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Tell us what you think of this trend — the world’s biggest tech companies contributing huge amounts of money to interests that would affect Internet and social media use.
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This story originally published on Mashable here.
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