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On the recordDecember 31, 2022
So powerful that you literally can have a bill that got through the Judiciary Committee with strong bipartisan support, you can get promises from leaders that it's going to be a major end-of-year bill and then within 24 hours, it's gone. It's vanished. because of one company, two companies in this case; Facebook and Google - by the way, Google made $66 billion in one quarter in advertising while we are going to lose one third of the nation's newspapers by 2025.
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Amy Klobuchar
Democratic · Minnesota

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Discussing the influence of the tech lobby on legislation.

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