The 17 biggest tech scandals of 2017

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The 17 biggest tech scandals of 2017

Travis Kalanick

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Uber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick.

2017 has been a reckoning of sorts.

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Years of sexual misconduct in the tech industry (and elsewhere) were brought to light this year.

Tech giants like Facebook and Google had to answer questions about their roles in swaying the 2016 election.

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Apple finally owned up to intentionally slowing down old iPhones.

Even YouTube star PewDiePie had a fall from grace, losing out on a lucrative deal with Disney for making anti-Semitic comments.

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In short, it's been quite a year in tech.

What follows are the biggest scandals in the tech industry over the course of the last year. Grab some popcorn:

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