TikTok’s parent company in China, ByteDance, spent $2.14 million on lobbying the U.S. government in the second quarter, according to a federal lobbying disclosure report made public on July 20.
That amount was an increase of 130 percent from the previous quarter, when the Beijing-based company spent $930,000 on lobbying in the United States. For the entire year of 2021, ByteDance spent over $4.7 million on lobbying, according to a federal database.
