A brutal year: how the 'techlash' caught up with Facebook, Google and Amazon

Privacy scandals and antitrust issues dogged social media giants and the online retailer saw a rise in employee organizing

What goes up must come down, and in 2019, gravity reasserted itself for the tech industry.

After years of relatively unchecked growth, the tech industry found itself on the receiving end of increased scrutiny from lawmakers and the public and attacks from its own employees.