Tech's terrible year: how the world turned on Silicon Valley in 2017
by Olivia Solon in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#3BFRV)
From the #DeleteUber campaign to fake news, the industry found itself in the crosshairs this year - and it was a long time coming, experts say
When Jonathan Taplin's book Move Fast and Break Things, which dealt with the worrying rise of big tech, was first published in the UK in April 2017, his publishers removed its subtitle because they didn't think it was supported by evidence: "How Facebook, Google and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy."
When the paperback edition comes out early next year, that subtitle will be restored.
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