TikTok, ByteDance spent millions on lobbying Congress
TikTok and ByteDance have been on a lobbying spending spree on Capitol Hill. Many of those efforts have fallen on deaf ears.
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TikTok and ByteDance have been on a lobbying spending spree on Capitol Hill. Many of those efforts have fallen on deaf ears.
Dingell, freddy barnes, with kevin mccarthy is involved in tiktok, members of congress, jeff denham, also a friend of the speaker is involved in lobbying effort. trent lott involved and so is john broh, democrat from louisiana, all insiders on capital hill working for tiktok. >> ainsley: a lot of people behind jamal bowman were influencers, make a ton of money on social platforms. the difference is facebook and instagram, they are not owned by a company in china. the company bytedance is out of beijing and we know the communist party, they are rulers there. if they want information, they're go...
TikTok wasn’t going to lose an ally to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy when former Rep. Jeff Denham jumped from K&L Gates to Dentons earlier this year.
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, spent over $13.4 million on lobbyists since it first began lobbying in 2019.
There’s perhaps no one in Washington who distrusts TikTok quite as much as Brendan Carr. Carr, a 44-year-old Donald Trump appointee to the Federal Communications Commission, has spent much of the last year going around cable news and elsewhere calling for the hugely popular short-video app to be ...