https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-set-2018-lobbying-record-213458940.html

The industry had good reason to up its influence game last year: It faces a so-called techlash of greater congressional and regulatory scrutiny after numerous privacy breaches and disclosures that Russia used social media platforms to distribute propaganda meant to influence the 2016 presidential election.

Some industry critics also say it has grown too big and too powerful, leading to suggestions by politicians and organizations, on the left and the right, that the companies should be broken up.