Are big tech companies trying to control our lives?

HARI SREENIVASAN: But first: Tech giants are increasingly under scrutiny from politicians, regulators and experts on the left and the right. Some are concerned about their growing power, even calling them monopolies. And the tension keeps building, whether over privacy, politics or the displacement of workers by automation. We, too, at the NewsHour have worked and collaborated with Facebook, Google and many other new media businesses. Economics correspondent Paul Solman has a conversation for his weekly series, Making Sense.