There’s no doubt that Facebook has a massive amount of control over our online lives. However, the social media giant also has tremendous influence in the real world, including among our lawmakers. That’s why a new project called Facebook Receipts aims to shed light on how Facebook spends its money to shape the laws that could potentially rein it in.

For years, Facebook has said to anyone who will listen that it wants lawmakers to set the ground rules for how it should handle content moderation, privacy, and a host of other issues. However, the company’s actions tell a different story.

“For years, Facebook has told Congress that it wants regulation, and it wants legislation. It wants the lawmakers in Washington, D.C., to define what the rules of the road are for tech companies,” Facebook Receipts founder Zamaan Qureshi told Fox News. “But every time both Democrats and Republicans put forth new pieces of legislation, it seems that the company isn’t interested in working with lawmakers on this, or actually supporting any of the regulation in a way that’s substantive.”

Facebook is notoriously opaque, making it difficult to attain transparency into its operations. Hopefully, more advocates will adopt the approach of Facebook Receipts and closely scrutinize the company’s financial transactions and actions to ascertain its true intentions.

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