>a difficulty in making many technical profession seem appealing to young people, especially young women I wonder what is the effect of having the media tell p

>a difficulty in making many technical profession seem appealing to young people, especially young women I wonder what is the effect of having the media tell people constantly for a decade that tech companies are evil organisations trying to invade everyone's privacy and mislead everyone as much as possible. They people who work in tech companies are "tech bros" who have no morals, and only care about making money, stealing private information, or spreading damaging and false political information. They are also sexist and racist work environments. That's the impression that a young person would get from media coverage (coverage written by the direct competitors of many of the tech companies). I'm not downplaying the problem of sexism and racism in tech companies, I just think that it gets outsized attention in the media compared to any other industry. For example, does the energy industry have a racism problem? Or the pharmaceutical industry? Yes the impression one would get from the media is that these issues are particularly bad in tech. It's not just the traditional media that portrays tech as evil either, its also the culture more generally in shows like Silicon Valley or the Social Dilemma.