congress
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Facebook Already Spent $4.3 Million Lobbying This Year
Facebook spent $4.3 on lobbying in the United States during the first quarter of 2018, disclosures filed with the government Friday showed. The multi-million dollar effort marks the largest tab the company has ever racked up on lobbying in a single quarter.
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Here’s A Bingo Card To Play While Mark Zuckerberg Spews Garbage On Capitol Hill
Today, Mark Zuckerberg will make the first of his back-to-back appearances on Capitol Hill. He’s reportedly been getting a lot of coaching from normal humans, so we can expect a lot of canned answers pulled from Facebook’s greatest hits. To help you navigate the proceedings we’ve gamified the experience.
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Don’t Fall For Marsha Blackburn’s ‘Open Internet Preservation Act’
Last week, the Republican-dominated Federal Communications Commission and its wildly unpopular decision to repeal Barack Obama-era open internet guidelines in the US, potentially opening the door for internet service providers to start blocking or throttling anyone on the web they want or hitting them up for extortionate fees. With the FCC abrogating most of its own…
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US Senator: EpiPen Manufacturer Ripped Off The US Government For $1.7 Billion
For people with severe allergies, having an EpiPen can mean the difference between life and death. Because there’s no generic alternative, EpiPen manufacturer Mylan just keeps jacking up the price and ripping off patients. They also seem to have ripped off the US government. Today, a probe by the US Department of Health and Human…