Conservative group challenges Big Tech by highlighting shadow lobbying efforts

By Nihal Krishan

Published July 19, 2021 11:00pm ET

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Conservative group challenges Big Tech by highlighting shadow lobbying efforts — A woman walks below a Google sign on the campus in Mountain View, California. In the years since Barack Obama and Joe Biden left the White House, the tech industry's political fortunes have flipped. Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple have come under scrutiny from Congress, federal regulators, state attorneys general and European authorities.

A conservative advocacy group launched a new tool Monday to track well-known organizations funded by Big Tech companies to publicize conflicts of interest.

The American Principles Project, a populist conservative group, launched BigTechFunding.org to track which think tanks, universities, and non-profit advocacy groups receive funding from tech giants such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple based on publicly available disclosures.

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