Why Facebook should fear a Democratic win in 2020
July 25, 2019
The Democratic anger over Facebook is the most potent sign yet of the peril Silicon Valley faces if the party regains full power in Washington: Investigations could become more intrusive, and the online industry could face punishments that have never realistically been on the table — including a ban on the kind of behavior-based advertising that supplies Facebook's fortune. Such repercussions could go even beyond the backlash that tech is experiencing under the Trump administration. A future Democratic administration would not bring a return to the tech-friendly days of the Obama era.