The Boeing Scandal Embodies the State of Tech in 2019

This was the year we learned how easily old tech platforms adopted the flaws of the new ones

Grounded 737 Max 8 aircraft at Boeing Field in Seattle, WA. Photo: SounderBruce/Wikimedia Commons

The biggest tech story of 2019 wasn’t Facebook’s questionable advertising rules or the plight of its content moderators. Nor was it Google’s inability to reign in the far right on YouTube. It wasn’t even Amazon’s quick…