At the start of this decade, tech was full of promise. Then it evaporated.
Read an oral history of the 2010s, as told by Mark Zuckerberg, Edward Snowden, the founders of Instagram, Brianna Wu, Ellen Pao, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, and more.
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Read an oral history of the 2010s, as told by Mark Zuckerberg, Edward Snowden, the founders of Instagram, Brianna Wu, Ellen Pao, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, and more.
nyti.ms/36Diltt
The Arab Spring in 2010 marked a high point in optimism about the organizing power of technology. Wael Ghonim, then a Google executive in Dubai, created a Facebook page that became an icon of the movement against autocratic governments. nyti.ms/36Diltt 
In 2013, The Guardian began publishing articles revealing the extent of the U.S. government’s surveillance, including the sweeping collection of Americans’ phone records. The source, Edward Snowden, was a former government contractor. nyti.ms/36Diltt
In 2014, the amorphous online movement Gamergate launched coordinated harassment campaigns against women in the video game industry, using tactics that have now become commonplace. Brianna Wu, a video game developer, was one of the targets. nyti.ms/36Diltt
Days after the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Mark Zuckerberg says the notion that Facebook affected the result is "a pretty crazy idea." Russia is later found to have used it to interfere in the election by sowing discord and spreading disinformation. nyti.ms/36Diltt
By 2017, online subcultures had exploded into the mainstream. The video game Fortnite became a global phenomenon, and gamers who livestreamed themselves playing, like Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, became celebrities. nyti.ms/36Diltt
The Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018 revealed that the data firm with links to President Trump's 2016 campaign had harvested the personal information of tens of millions of people. The scandal set off an ongoing privacy reckoning for Facebook. nyti.ms/36Diltt
By the end of the decade, a reckoning had come for all of Big Tech. Congress, the Federal Trade Commission, and dozens of U.S. states began antitrust investigations into companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple. nyti.ms/36Diltt
There’s much, much more to the decade in tech. Read about the day BuzzFeed blew up a watermelon, how tech executives reacted to HBO’s “Silicon Valley,” and how Theranos finally unraveled: nyti.ms/36Diltt
