US Tech Firms Hid Lobbying Efforts, European Parliament Says
- MEPs filed lobbying complaints against Meta, Google, Amazon
- Groups lobbied EU in run up to votes on Digital Markets Act
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Meta Platforms Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google funded an outside lobbying group to sway lawmakers on a major European tech law, but failed to disclose the connections, according to complaints filed by members of the European Parliament.
In the complaints, three members of parliament said the big tech companies broke transparency rules for lobbyists and failed to list their members correctly, according to documents seen by Bloomberg and filed to the EU’s Transparency Register on Thursday.