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Summary: It was the year of the tech backlash. Throughout 2017, Facebook, Google, and Twitter were hauled before Congress to answer for their roles in election hacking. More and more prominent political, business, and media figures warned of the growing power of the technology giants, and some offered solutionsrarely uttered in this country: breaking the companies up and/or turning them into public utilities. At Davos last week, Salesforce.