Silicon Valley Gets Another President Sceptical of Big Tech

As a candidate, Joe Biden lambasted Facebook Inc. for what he considered failures to contain the spread of misinformation. His presidential election win puts him in a position to do something about it.

Facebook, Apple Inc., Google and other tech giants are bracing for continued attention on their operations in a Biden administration, with issues such as competition, innovation and social-media platforms’ policing of content likely to be in focus, according to industry executives, analysts and academics.

Companies are watching for hints of a Biden administration’s disposition toward Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which provides legal protections to internet platforms for content that users…