Two factors that seem to be on the mind of the NYTimes: * Tech companies' role in 2016 election interference (agents buying ads, trolls) * Tech companies' imp

Two factors that seem to be on the mind of the NYTimes: * Tech companies' role in 2016 election interference (agents buying ads, trolls) * Tech companies' impact on journalism (Google News, decline in subscriptions, shift in advertising) The first one is explicit, and they have every right and responsibility to hold it up to the light, given its seriousness. The second one is a more of a speculation about their motivations. Newspapers are clearly frustrated -- how much does it factor into NYT's recent trend of aggressive coverage of tech & social media?