Tech Giants Push for Regulation at Davos, Hoping to Steer Outcome

Facing antitrust investigations and a growing backlash over privacy, encryption, artificial intelligence and content monitoring, leaders at tech giants including Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp., Facebook Inc. and Apple Inc. are now calling for new laws on a range of issues — even though some have worked to torpedo others designed to restrict their activities. Their push to join in the policy debate, which was on display at the World Economic Forum in Davos, is motivated in part by a sense that a wave of new regulation is inevitable.