Facebook and Amazon lead tech lobbying spend as antitrust scrutiny mounts

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New disclosures show Facebook and Amazon each spent more than $4 million on lobbying activity in the second quarter of 2019.

reported $2.9 million in lobbying spend for the quarter, according to newly released lobbying disclosures, continuing a trend of reduced spending on such activity. Earlier this year, Google fired several of its biggest lobbying firms as it restructured its policy operations,Facebook spent $4.1 million on lobbying activity in the second quarter of 2019, outspending almost all other tech firms.

The hefty spending comes as the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice have begun to solidify their scrutiny of the nation's largest tech firms. Tech stocks

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