See our media citations from outlets around the nation this week:
TikTok Spends Millions on Ad Blitz as Congress Considers Banning the App (The New York Times)
ByteDance spent $8.7 million on lobbying last year, according to OpenSecrets, a nonprofit research group, and its in-house team and a variety of outside firms are trying to influence lawmakers.
The GOP’s big-donor problem (Politico)
In the 2020 cycle, big donors — those who gave $100,000 or more — who contributed only to Democrats contributed $5.2 billion, according to FEC data analyzed by OpenSecrets. Only-Republican big donors chipped in $3.3 billion, a huge number that nevertheless left them trailing by almost $2 billion.
As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice (Washington Post)
General Mills has funded at least seven scientific studies since 2019 claiming that cereals are beneficial to consumers’ health. The company spent more than $2 million in 2022 and 2023 lobbying the federal government, according to data from OpenSecrets, a nonprofit group.
