The MAGA culture war comes for Silicon Valley

President-elect Donald Trump is taking Washington’s war against Big Tech in a sharp new direction, naming a trio of federal leaders expected to bring conservative culture-war issues to the center of the debate over tech monopoly power. Federal Trade Commissioner Andrew Ferguson joins Gail Slater, a JD Vance adviser whom Trump recently nominated to the top antitrust job at the Department of Justice. They have a third ally in Federal Communications Commission member Brendan Carr, who will chair the FCC. All three have questioned the growing power of tech giants. That marks a shift from President Joe Biden’s approach to Big Tech’s power. Led by FTC Chair Lina Khan and her antitrust counterpart at the DOJ, Jonathan Kanter, the Biden administration took an aggressive, technocratic approach to kneecapping the market power of tech giants like Amazon and Google—but steered clear of arguments about speech, censorship and content.