id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> The tech industry was riding high a decade ago: Facebook and Twitter were becoming vital tools for pro-democracy protesters around the world, Apple's iPhone was taking off, and a new class of startups like Uber and TaskRabbit appeared ready to change the world.

<b><u>As we close out the 2010s, the love affair we all had with tech has definitely turned sour. </u></b>

Now playing: Watch this: 2019's Top 5 tech turkeys 5:38 Social media may be helping connect people and make their lives better, but it's also been twisted into a tool of propagandists aiming to upend our elections. It's become home to serial harassers, who send troll armies that threaten to rape and kill their perceived enemies. It's become a hotbed of revenge porn and conspiracy theories. And mass murderers have used social platforms' livestreaming technology to promote their terror, and then their devotees have used the social networks to spread their recordings