Amazon Lobbying Reaches Company Record Amid Pentagon Competition
- Google, Twitter also boosted spending on Washington influence
- Internet firms fought allegations of bias, antitrust scrutiny
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Amazon.com Inc. set its second consecutive quarterly record on spending to influence U.S. policy makers in the third quarter as it competed for a $10 billion cloud-computing contract with the Pentagon.
Lobbying expenditures by other technology giants also increased as executives from Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. came to Washington to address allegations of political bias on their platforms from President Donald Trump and fellow Republicans and braced for the threat of more antitrust scrutiny.