BYTEDANCE INC.

Lobbying client · California · filed 2025 to 2026

$11,040,000 Reported spend

6 Filings counted

1 Firms hired

4 Bills named

Spend is reported income plus in-house expenses across 6 filings. Everything on this page is grouped by the client's LDA id (203505), not by name.

Firms hired 1

BYTEDANCE INC. $11,040,000 6 filings

Bills named in these filings 4

HR 7521
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act

4 filings
S 1367
NO FAKES Act of 2025

4 filings
S 4569
TAKE IT DOWN Act

2 filings
HR 6719
James T. Woods Act

1 filing

Reported by year 2 years

2026 $2,710,000 2 filings
2025 $8,330,000 4 filings

Issues lobbied 2

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

Executive Office of the President (EOP) 6
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 6
SENATE 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 6 total

Q2

BYTEDANCE INC.

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

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BYTEDANCE INC.

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

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BYTEDANCE INC.

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

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BYTEDANCE INC.

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

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BYTEDANCE INC.

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

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BYTEDANCE INC.

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

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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.

Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings, synced daily. Money is self-reported by the filer and often rounded. Lobbying is legal, disclosed activity.