BYTEDANCE INC.

Lobbying client · California · filed 2025 to 2026

Internet Technology Company

$12,380,000 Reported spend

14 Filings counted

1 Outside firm hired

5 Bills named

Spend is reported income plus in-house expenses across 14 filings. 1 further filing for this client was restated by a later amendment and is left out of every total here. The LDA keeps a separate client record for every registrant that files for a client, so this page adds up 2 records, one per registrant listed below. Records are combined when the client name matches once case, punctuation and endings such as Inc. or LLC are set aside; for a city, county or port the state has to match as well.

Who filed for this client 2

BYTEDANCE INC. $11,950,000 In-house, the client's own filings · 7 filings
K&L GATES, LLP $430,000 Outside firm · 7 filings

Spend per registrant: fees an outside firm reported, or the costs the client reported for lobbying in-house. The rows add up to the total above.

Bills named in these filings 5

S. 1367
NO FAKES Act of 2025

5 filings
H.R. 7521
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act

4 filings
S. 2296
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026

4 filings
S. 4569
TAKE IT DOWN Act

2 filings
H.R. 6719
James T. Woods Act

1 filing

Reported by year 2 years

2026 $3,810,000 6 filings
2025 $8,570,000 8 filings

Issues lobbied 4

The count is how many filings named that issue area. A filing reports one lump figure covering every issue on it, so the money above cannot be split between them.

Agencies and chambers lobbied 8

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 13
SENATE 13
Executive Office of the President (EOP) 6
Defense, Dept of (DOD) 3
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) 2
Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS) 1
Small Business Administration (SBA) 1
Veterans Affairs, Dept of (VA) 1

Recent filings 15 total

Q3 report

K&L GATES, LLP

3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30) · House · Senate · $70,000 income · posted Oct 20, 2026

View → Q3 report

BYTEDANCE INC.

3rd Quarter 2026 (July 1 - Sep 30) · House · Senate · $910,000 expenses · posted Oct 20, 2026

View → Q2 report

BYTEDANCE INC.

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · $1,140,000 expenses · posted Jul 20, 2026

View → Q2 report

K&L GATES, LLP

2nd Quarter 2026 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Jul 19, 2026

View → Q1 report

BYTEDANCE INC.

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $1,570,000 expenses · posted Apr 20, 2026

View → Q1 report

K&L GATES, LLP

1st Quarter 2026 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Apr 19, 2026

View → Q4 amendment

K&L GATES, LLP

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · $60,000 income · posted Mar 4, 2026

View → Q4 report

BYTEDANCE INC.

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · House · Senate · $1,680,000 expenses · posted Jan 20, 2026

View → Q4 report

K&L GATES, LLP Amended

4th Quarter 2025 (Oct 1 - Dec 31) · $60,000 income · posted Jan 20, 2026

View → Q3 report

BYTEDANCE INC.

3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30) · House · Senate · $1,800,000 expenses · posted Oct 20, 2025

View → Q3 report

K&L GATES, LLP

3rd Quarter 2025 (July 1 - Sep 30) · House · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Oct 19, 2025

View → Q2 report

K&L GATES, LLP

2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Jul 21, 2025

View → Q2 report

BYTEDANCE INC.

2nd Quarter 2025 (Apr 1 - June 30) · House · Senate · $2,020,000 expenses · posted Jul 21, 2025

View → Q1 report

BYTEDANCE INC.

1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $2,830,000 expenses · posted Apr 21, 2025

View → Q1 report

K&L GATES, LLP

1st Quarter 2025 (Jan 1 - Mar 31) · House · Senate · $60,000 income · posted Apr 21, 2025

View →

Foreign entities disclosed 4

BYTEDANCE LTD. (OWNS 100% OF BYTEDANCE INC.; 100% OF TIKTOK LTD.) Cayman Islands named on 1 filing · highest disclosed ownership 100% · largest disclosed contribution $0
GOGOKU LTD. (OWNS APPROXIMATELY 21% OF BYTEDANCE LTD.)(FORMERLY BYTETEAM LTD.) Virgin Islands (British) named on 1 filing · highest disclosed ownership 21% · largest disclosed contribution $0
TIKTOK LTD. (OWNS 100% OF TIKTOK LLC WHICH OWNS 100% OF TIKTOK INC.) Cayman Islands named on 1 filing · highest disclosed ownership 100% · largest disclosed contribution $0
ZHANG YIMING (OWNS 100% OF GOGOKU LTD.) Singapore named on 1 filing · highest disclosed ownership 21% · largest disclosed contribution $0

Section 7 of the LD-2: a foreign company or government that owns part of the client, pays toward the lobbying, or benefits from it. Figures are the highest single disclosure across these filings, not a sum: the same stake is re-disclosed each quarter.

Keep going

Filings through October 20, 2026, the newest posted date on this record. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings, synced daily. Money is self-reported by the filer and often rounded. Lobbying is legal, disclosed activity.