Where Are the Tech Muckrakers?
▻http://mediashift.org/2017/11/where-are-the-tech-muckrakers
Where are those Pulitzer Prize-winning investigations about Facebook and big tech? What teams have disclosed the secret algorithms that control our lives and our news feeds? What teams have dug into the cult-like, heavily male culture that perpetuates the Silicon Valley world? What teams have exposed the impact of the phalanx of lobbyists that Facebook, Google, Amazon and other tech firms have hired in recent years to blunt any government interference in their business?
(…) Two news organizations have done strong investigative work into Facebook: ProPublica and BuzzFeed.