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2017 was a year of scrutiny for social media and other tech

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Technology in 2017 may have inspired more skepticism than the awe or optimism of the past.

Technology in 2017 may have inspired more skepticism than the awe or optimism it has in the past. Such defining moments, from harassment allegations to hacking exploits, may have cast the tech industry in a much harsher light. Hari Sreenivasan takes a look back at the year's major tech stories with Farhad Manjoo of The New York Times and David Kirkpatrick of Techonomy.

12/27/2017

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