For months we have been told that Americans are fed up with technology companies and demanding a change. Big tech is destroying startups, innovation, and even our democracy. And people — especially certain politicians — have had enough. The “techlash” was here to save us.
The term “techlash” was coined by The Economist to explain the phenomenon of growing hostility toward large tech firms. It even made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, “A strong and widespread negative reaction to the growing power and influence of large technology companies, particularly those based in Silicon Valley.”
In 2019, more than 600 news articles explicitly mentioned the techlash, so it is not surprising that many of us accepted it as reality without ever really asking, does it exist outside of a narrow echo chamber?
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