Elon Musk’s Dangerous Dance With Twitter: Looking Back on the Year in Tech

Razzlekhan and Dutch • Musk’s Yes-Men • Sam Bankman-Fried’s Collapse

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Elon Musk’s Dangerous Dance With Twitter: Looking Back on the Year in Tech

This holiday break, Twitter remains top of mind for users as CEO Elon Musk continues to steer the platform into chaos, making it a perfect time to revisit Nick Bilton’s scathing critique of the billionaire’s private coterie of yes-men, as well as Bess Levin’s comprehensive roundup of Musk’s most outrageous antics. It’s hardly clear whether Musk will run Twitter into the ground, but in the meantime, as Molly Jong-Fast penned in a November essay, “There’s no comparable place to go.”

Musk wasn’t the only tech guru to dominate headlines this year. Last month, we saw the spectacular fall of crypto-exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried, whose catastrophic money moves have made crypto a top priority in Congress, as Paul McLeod reported. And if you’re looking for a TL;DR recap of 2022, Bilton captures just about all of this mayhem—and more—in his latest year-in-review column. “We need to contemplate what we’re doing to humanity with technology,” he writes, as we head into the New Year, “before decades’ worth of change happen in mere minutes, or seconds.”

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