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Sina Technology News Beijing time on the morning of January 24, according to reports, Apple’s total lobbying spending in 2022 will increase by 44% compared with 2021.
Although Apple’s lobbying spending has grown the fastest compared to its peers, the actual amount is still lower than other tech giants. The company’s total lobbying spending in 2022 is nearly $9.4 million, the highest in the company’s history, but slightly lower than Microsoft’s $9.8 million and Google’s $10.9 million.
In comparison, Amazon and Meta led the way in total lobbying spending last year among U.S. companies, at $19.7 million and $19.2 million, respectively. Among them, Amazon will increase by about 2% compared with 2021, and Meta will decrease by about 4.6%.
The five technology giants spent a total of nearly $69 million on lobbying with the U.S. federal government last year, a 5% increase from 2021.
In the United States in 2022, tech giants face the prospect of some legislation that could disrupt their business models, including antitrust bills that would ban large platforms or online marketplaces from favoring their own products and ban app stores from forcing consumers to use in-app payments.
None of these bills were voted by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in the end, and supporters of the bills blamed in part on the aggressive lobbying of technology giants.
Apple’s public documents show that the company lobbied against antitrust bills in the fourth quarter of last year, and other lobbying activities involved issues such as online privacy, taxation, semiconductor policy, content moderation, climate change, and immigration. But the relevant document does not contain specific positions held by companies on these issues.
An Apple spokesman has yet to comment.
Other tech giants have engaged in many similar issues, but some have also lobbied on topics more relevant to their businesses. For example, Amazon is involved in cloud computing issues and the INFORM Consumers Act, a bill recently passed by Congress to combat counterfeit goods sold online.
Lobbying spending by semiconductor companies has also surged as the U.S. government considered the Chips and Science Act last year, hoping to use stimulus to help increase U.S. production capacity for computer chips.
Intel has pledged to invest up to $100 billion in a chip factory in Ohio. The company’s lobbying spending rose more than 72 percent last year, to a total of $7 million. Micron Technology, which has also pledged to build a chip factory in New York, also increased its lobbying spending by 118% last year to $4.2 million.
Cryptocurrency and fintech firms also saw significant increases in lobbying spending last year, but the totals were relatively small. For example, Coinbase restarted last year after a long lobbying hiatus, with a total of $3.4 million in 2022. The Blockchain Association, which represents the interests of several cryptocurrency companies, also increased its lobbying spending by 111% last year.
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