Yeah, not just him, and not just TikTok / ByteDance: > It’s also spent over $13 million lobbying the federal government since 2019, per OpenSecrets, including

Yeah, not just him, and not just TikTok / ByteDance: > It’s also spent over $13 million lobbying the federal government since 2019, per OpenSecrets, including a record $5.4 million last year. ByteDance’s spending on lobbying was reportedly the fourth-largest among internet companies, behind only Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet. > Records show that the same politicians who’ve publicly attacked the app and voted to restrict its use have also accepted donations from top executives with TikTok and its parent company ByteDance. > Federal Election Commission (FEC) records show that in the last election cycle, ByteDance and TikTok employees handed out $130,000 in campaign donations to a range of politicians. A third of these donations came from one person: David J. Urban, who was the executive vice president of ByteDance at the time. (Urban has since left the company.) His profile on his current employer’s website says that he helped ByteDance “navigate public policy and communications challenges.” https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tiktok-bytedance-donations-kevin-mccarthy-donations/ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tiktok-bytedance-donations-ke...