Chinese TikTok owner increased U.S. lobbying spending by 130% this quarter

TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance had its biggest lobbying quarter ever, spending more than $2.1 million in the second quarter to lobby the U.S. government, according to its

filed Wednesday in a federal database.

That represents a 130% increase from ByteDance’s spending the previous quarter and marks the first time it’s topped $2 million in a single quarter since it first…