After helping to vet personnel picks for thousands of political and staff positions, including for roles at the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, and leading the Justice Department’s antitrust division, Silicon Valley insiders who joined the Biden-Harris transition are moving into key White House posts of their own.

The Obama-Biden administration from 2009-2017 was criticized for its close ties to Big Tech, and veterans of that White House, as well as of technology firms, are finding their way back into Joe Biden’s government. This at a moment when major tech firms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google are under fire for what critics call a politically biased crackdown on conservative speech.