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Silicon Valley needs to take responsibility for its political power

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Silicon Valley needs to take responsibility for its political power

Big tech firms have enabled the US’s current mess – the time has come for them to acknowledge that they are key to our political process and repair the things they have broken, writes Annalee Newitz

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