I don’t think this should be a surprise to anyone. When the pandemic started a lot of people on quarantine had to face social media to keep themselves happy, lots of people went on Tiktok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and lots of them and we’re consuming contents. And apart from that, I think there were some Businesses who saw that as an opportunity to start advertising their products, so these tech Businesses were sure going to make lots of money at this time. As for Amazon, a lot of shifted to making their orders online to avoid going out of their house. So, this is not a surprise to me at all.
It is not a surprise that they are getting profits, that is understandable the surprise is the level of those profits and why those profits are well deserved people are really mad because during this crisis many people have lost their jobs or are seeing their pay to be reduced while those giants are earning a fortune, while I have no problems with a company that is well run this has offended many people and they are demanding some action from the government.
And the only action that a government could take against them is to claim that they are monopolies and to somehow break them apart but I do not see any intention from governments to do so.