BYTEDANCE INC.

Lobbying for BYTEDANCE INC.

Filing · LD-2 quarterly report Q2 report

Reporting period

2nd Quarter 2025

Apr 1 - June 30 · Posted Jul 21, 2025

Expenses

$2,020,000

What this organization spent lobbying with its own staff. Reported using the LDA's own definitions (method A): the three LDA methods count different costs, so an expenses figure is not comparable across filers that used different ones.

Client based in

California

Official filing document

Government bodies contacted 3

The chambers, agencies and offices the filer named. It does not say who inside them was contacted, or when. Each name opens every filing that named the same body.

Lobbying activity 2

Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV

Issues related to internet technology and learning-enabled content platforms. Issues related to privacy, data security, data localization, protecting children, intermediary liability, and platform/content moderation, including federal privacy and protection legislation, including TAKE IT DOWN Act (S.4569).

Trade (domestic/foreign)

Trade issues affecting internet companies, including de minimis low value import legislation/regulation, legislation related to cross-border data transfers and legal frameworks for foreign-based applications and services, including TikTok ban legislation like H.R. 7521 (Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act).

Bills named in this filing 2

S. 4569
TAKE IT DOWN Act
H.R. 7521
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act

Foreign interests disclosed 4

Section 7 of the LD-2: foreign entities that own part of the client, paid toward this lobbying, or stand to benefit from it.

BYTEDANCE LTD. (OWNS 100% OF BYTEDANCE INC.; 100% OF TIKTOK LTD.)

Cayman Islands · Grand Cayman, KY1-1104 · owns 100% of the client · contributed $0
GOGOKU LTD. (OWNS APPROXIMATELY 21% OF BYTEDANCE LTD.)(FORMERLY BYTETEAM LTD.)

Virgin Islands (British) · Tortolla, VG1110 · owns 21% of the client · contributed $0
TIKTOK LTD. (OWNS 100% OF TIKTOK LLC WHICH OWNS 100% OF TIKTOK INC.)

Cayman Islands · Grand Cayman, KY1 - 1205 · owns 100% of the client · contributed $0
ZHANG YIMING (OWNS 100% OF GOGOKU LTD.)

Singapore · Singapore 048583 · owns 21% of the client · contributed $0

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filing, reproduced as filed. Bills are parsed from the activity descriptions.