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Does Silicon Valley Have An Image Problem?
- BuzzFeed, Wednesday, September 13, 2017 6:51 PM
Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith paints an ugly picture of the current climate in Silicon Valley, and suggests that the tech industry has never been so unpopular among the general public. “The blinding rise of Donald Trump over the past year has masked another major trend in American politics: the palpable, and perhaps permanent, turn against the tech industry,” he reasons. “The new corporate leviathans that used to be seen as bright new avatars of American innovation are increasingly portrayed as sinister new centers of unaccountable power.”
