'Big Five' tech giants spent €19m lobbying EU in 2020
'Big Five' tech giants spent â¬19m lobbying EU in 2020 Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO. The report also reveals that three of Facebook's five registered lobbyists were working in the EU institutions - until just before they joined the big social media company (Photo: European Commission) Brussels, 1. Mar, 07:02 The increased regulatory scrutiny of tech giants such as Google, Facebook and Microsoft has triggered a rise in lobbying by these companies in Brussels, and, accordingly, an exponential grow of their budget for these activities. Last year, the so-called 'Big Five' - Google, Amazon, M...