Facebook doubled its European lobbying spend to $3 million to handle crises like fake news and terrorism (FB)

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• Filings show Facebook shelled out a record amount on its European lobbying operations in 2017, doubling spend to $3 million.
• The company faced multiple crises last year, including the spread of fake news, terrorist content, and election interference.
• European officials have called on Mark Zuckerberg and other senior Facebook execs to appear before the European Parliament to explain the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
• This...