Good, finally putting that money to good use.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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I don't know why I do this to myself, but I read through Meta's disclosure
Every single lobbyist I looked at worked in DC before becoming a lobbyist. I knew it happened a lot, but it's really depressing to see
Also, why do these disclosures not require companies to specify how the money was spent? There are only ~20 different lobbyists mentioned, and Meta spent 7.6M in a single quarter
Yes, companies hiring people in politics or with government connections is a very normal thing
The reason we have a Chinese competitor that we cannot directly control is that Meta is buying up every promising US platform and shutting it down. Or just trying to copy it so that the competitor does not get enough users
As if anti-trust law doesn't exist. It is crazy to me nowadays, most tech startup's goal from the very start is to sale to a big tech competitor. This certainly should have anti-trust implications.
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“Issues related to voter suppression/interference, political ads and misinformation policies.”
It's nice to see meta have learned from their own mistakes and are now trying to protect ~~democracy~~ profits.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
Shit, we should also ban insta, fb, and google places while we’re at it.
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I think this was less about lobbying and more about bogeyman of China.
AIPAC lobbying also
You know China vetoed a Gaza Ceasefire last march, right?
They're also allied with Iran who militarized Hamas in the first place.
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$7.6 million, pocket change to these chumps. Up the ante!
So what does Zuck do when Trump uses an exec order to stay the ban and pushes Republicans to reverse it?
Well I just hope they reverse the whole bill, so we can re-appropriate the tax money back we sent to aid Israel
Trumps just gonna keep him hanging hoping he’s in the inner circle and bleeding him dry in the process.
It's already back up lmfao
Yep. But this doesn't answer their question. I'm rooting for a Tik Tok CEO vs Meta CEO battle Royale at the inauguration.
Algorithmically quell his own cybernetic rage.
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