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Commentary: Recovering from Big Tech’s lost decade

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 24, 2022, in New York City.

For 65 years, the United States has counted on its digital tech industry to create amazing products and drive economic growth. For most of that time, the industry has exceeded expectations. Over the past decade, however, the tech industry has lost its way, with a culture, products and business models that have undermined democracy, public health and public safety.

Recent global events create an opportunity for the industry to reset and it is vitally important that it do so. America needs its technology industry to solve problems, not aggravate them. But we cannot expect the industry to transform itself without proper incentives, which

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