> "How evil is tech" is a nice Trumpian headline. Looks like NYT is catching up with the times.
What makes you think it needed to catch up at all? Look, press/media, tech, and any industry out there are there to "Make world a better place... for themselves".
By formulating is like this, NYT implies that everybody agrees that "tech" is evil to some extent, and that the only discussion is about exactly how evil "tech" is. Don't forget that NYT is in pretty direct competition with some companies they call "tech". This article is not unlike Coca-Cola publishing a press release titled "How evil is Pepsi?".
(Note, I did not share any opinion about whether "tech" is evil and I don't necessarily disagree with the premise of the article. I'm just trying to highlight that this kind of writing appears to be the new baseline and it's not just fake news and the alt right who do it anymore and that bothers the crap out of me because I feel like I can't trust anyone anymore)