Google, the company who’s famous mantra is “Don’t be evil”, has grown to become one of the largest spenders on lobbying in the United States. Once surely considered “evil” by the company’s idealistic founders, lobbying has become essential to the search giant, that has repeatedly been subject to antitrust allegations.
In 2013, the company spent a total of US$15.8 million on lobbying, making Google the fifth largest corporate lobbying spender in Washington D.C. The accompanying graphic is courtesy of Statistica (http://tinyurl.com/l8eun6m).