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Facebook has met with the Juncker Commission at least 67 times, and now spends around €2.5m a year on lobbying in Brussels (Photo: portal gda)

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Facebook's increasing PR job in Brussels

Starting in 2012, when it first entered the EU's transparency register, Facebook has been steadily intensifying its lobbying efforts within European institutions.

Facebook is a regular subject of controversies connected to the use of data shared by its users - in 2013, for example, after the revelations of Edward Snowden, or more recently with the Cambridge Analytica affair.

As a consequence, the company has been trying its best...

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This article was first published by VoxEurop and the European Data Journalism Network. EDJNet is a platform for data-driven news on European affairs in up to 12 languages brought to you by a consortium of media and data journalists from all over Europe, which includes EUobserver.

Facebook has met with the Juncker Commission at least 67 times, and now spends around €2.5m a year on lobbying in Brussels (Photo: portal gda)

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This article was first published by VoxEurop and the European Data Journalism Network. EDJNet is a platform for data-driven news on European affairs in up to 12 languages brought to you by a consortium of media and data journalists from all over Europe, which includes EUobserver.

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