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Facebook adds House Democratic Caucus digital director

Posted by Keturah Hetrick on Dec. 13, 2018

As the tech giant faces continued fire in D.C. over issues of transparency and user privacy, Facebook has added a House Democratic Caucus communicator to help smooth over relations with the government.

Matt Schumacher had served as digital director to the caucus under chair Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), who lost his primary bid to incoming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and previously worked for the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The California native joined Facebook's politics and government outreach team last week.

Facebook is on track to spend more than $15 million on federal lobbying in 2018, including more than $13 million through its in-house team.