Apple’s refusal to decrypt the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone in 2015 and provide the data to the FBI, Facebook’s failure to control Russia’s hijacking of its platform to meddle in the 2016 election, and Google’s withdrawal in 2018 from Project Maven, the Pentagon program that seeks to use machine learning to process intelligence, and even the cloud computing contract. Many in Washington saw these and other actions as proof that Silicon Valley had become morally unserious and willing to elevate corporate profits above national defense, especially because many of these companies seemed more
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