Nothing this year brought home the dangers in private ownership of major social media platforms more than the capricious, often-destructive and regularly unpredictable actions of Twitter CEO Elon Musk. He is pictured above at Tesla's "Gigafactory" in Germany on March 22, 2022.
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Are the Kardashians America's family?
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Pedestrians navigate a snow-covered sidewalk in Chicago, on Thursday. Severe winter weather has impacted tens of millions of people in the U.S.
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Clockwise from top left: The Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Only Murders in the Building, Nope, This Is Going to Hurt and The Dropout
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