Silicon Valley braces for tougher regulation in Biden’s new Washington

Democratic leaders for years have proposed a bevy of new laws to shrink Silicon Valley’s corporate footprint, restrict its insatiable appetite for data and stop the spread of falsehoods online. But the party’s calls for regulation have grown more urgent in the days since Biden won the presidency, his party took control of the House and Senate — and Trump and his allies further exposed the risks of a largely unregulated web.