[Washington Post] Tech titans spent much of the last year playing defense, fending off dozens of federal and state antitrust investigations and a public wary of their power.
But the global coronavirus pandemic is prompting a dramatic reversal of fortune for the tech giants. Amazon and Facebook are capitalizing on the fact that they are viewed as essential services for a public in lockdown, while Google and Apple are building tools that will enable state health departments to provide a critical public service, tracing the course of potential new covid-19 infections.
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