> 1) Lobbyists costs a lot of money. The amount Facebook spent on WhatsApp is equivalent to fifty times the lobbying revenues of the top 10 DC lobbying firms co

> 1) Lobbyists costs a lot of money. The amount Facebook spent on WhatsApp is equivalent to fifty times the lobbying revenues of the top 10 DC lobbying firms combined. Then again, the amount FB spent on WhatsApp is twice the cost of the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most expensive scientific facility every built. And roughly the same as the final cost of the experimental fusion reactor ITER, the holy grail of energy sources. Comparing things to the WhatsApp acquisition price does not tell you much.