FACEBOOK as FEC employer text: $6.5 million

A consumer brand on the employer line

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. FACEBOOK is the name as stored on individual receipts. The $6,467,120 total is those itemized gifts. It is not advertising revenue, not a user-count statistic, and not a NAICS rollup of all social-media employers.

People who typed META, META PLATFORMS, FACEBOOK INC, INSTAGRAM, or ENGINEER without the brand sit in other rows if stored that way. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into this key.

Contractors and agency staff who typed a vendor name never enter FACEBOOK on those receipts. Full-time staff who typed ENGINEER instead also sit elsewhere. The $6,467,120 total is the brand as grouped.

898 donors and 16,656 lines

898 unique donors produced 16,656 FACEBOOK contribution lines totaling $6,467,120. That is on the order of 19 itemized receipts per donor. GOOGLE and MICROSOFT remain separate technology-employer keys. The packet does not publish a mean gift or an engineering-versus-sales split.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $6,467,120 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.

898 unique donors produced 16,656 lines. That is a moderate repeat pattern, not a 100,000-line payroll cluster. The packet does not publish an engineering share of the 898 people.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Intel

GOOGLE, AMAZON, MICROSOFT, and INTEL CORPORATION are separate employer-name keys. Combining them with FACEBOOK would be a researcher-built tech recode. This page stays at $6,467,120 for FACEBOOK only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the brand. ENGINEER, DEVELOPER, and SOFTWARE DEVELOPER-style strings are other keys when donors put the function in the employer box.

Do not add INTEL CORPORATION or MIT into FACEBOOK. Those are a manufacturer and a campus acronym. This page reports $6,467,120 from 898 donors and 16,656 lines for the brand only.

Donor table

The FACEBOOK donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a product launch, a content-moderation docket, or a motive to that line. Former employees who still type FACEBOOK share the string with current staff. The FEC field is not an HR file.

Repeat names are expected among 16,656 lines from 898 people. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the brand string.

FACEBOOK on the donor table is the consumer brand as typed, not META as a later legal name. 16,656 lines from 898 donors totaling $6,467,120 do not include GOOGLE, AMAZON, or MICROSOFT receipts. ENGINEER as a title-as-employer string is a different page when donors skipped the brand.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $6,467,120, 16,656 contributions, 898 donors, top employer FACEBOOK. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare GOOGLE, AMAZON, MICROSOFT, and INTEL CORPORATION on the industry index. Use occupation breakdowns for titles stored next to this employer.

FACEBOOK is not Meta as a later legal name

FACEBOOK grouped $6,467,120 from 898 donors and 16,656 lines. META, META PLATFORMS, FACEBOOK INC, and INSTAGRAM are other keys if stored that way. LobbyVault does not recode the consumer brand into a later holding-company name. GOOGLE, AMAZON, MICROSOFT, and INTEL CORPORATION stay on their own pages.

ENGINEER as a title-as-employer string captures people who skipped the brand. Unitemized gifts and the company’s PAC documents stay outside the $6,467,120 unless an individual receipt lists FACEBOOK.

Use the donor table for disclosed recipients. LobbyVault does not attach a product launch or a content-moderation docket to a large gift. Former employees who still type FACEBOOK remain in the 898. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS internet-publishing total.

Keep FACEBOOK’s $6,467,120, 16,656 contributions, and 898 donors on this brand string. GOOGLE, AMAZON, MICROSOFT, and INTEL CORPORATION stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts and the company PAC remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside the brand. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not a NAICS internet total.

Questions

How much have FACEBOOK-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $6,467,120 to the FACEBOOK employer string, from 16,656 contributions and 898 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS internet total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this Meta corporate political spending?

No. The $6,467,120 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to FACEBOOK. META as a later legal name, corporate treasury, and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories if stored separately. LobbyVault does not fold those documents into this industry row. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include Google, Amazon, or Microsoft employees?

No. GOOGLE, AMAZON, and MICROSOFT are separate employer strings with their own pages. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text FACEBOOK. Staff who typed only ENGINEER are in that title row instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed FACEBOOK?

The rollup counts 898 donors and 16,656 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an employee headcount from the company. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.