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Early this year, I asked Pui-Wing Tam, our Tech editor, to look back at 2018 and to predict some of 2019’s biggest story lines.

As we get ready to close out 2019, I asked her for some updates. Here’s what she said:

At the beginning of 2019, you said one overarching story your team would be following was a growing tech backlash. What were some of the most important developments in that area this year and why?

So we were both right and wrong. While a backlash did grow against tech in some significant ways in 2019, it also didn’t in other notable ways.

Here’s what I mean: In Washington, lawmakers and regulators clearly took on big tech in 2019. Federal agencies like the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission began antitrust investigations of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple, as did state attorneys general and Congress.