(CTN News) – According to its disclosure filed in a federal database Wednesday, TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance spent $2.1 million lobbying the U.S. government in the second quarter. For the first time since ByteDance first registered lobbying disclosures in 2019, it has spent more than $2 million in a single quarter. During 2021, the company spent about $4.7 million on lobbying. Various issues were lobbied. The American Innovation and Choice Online Act was discussed, a key antitrust bill that would prevent dominant tech platforms from favoring their own offerings over those of competitors. Furthermore, it lobbied on two versions of...