From Silicon Valley to Washington to Ukraine, the year 2022 was dominated by the collapse of widely accepted narratives. What received wisdom will fail in 2023?
or at least smart has been reduced to a smoking ruin, thanks to Elon Musk’s misadventure as the buyer and tweeter-in-chief of Twitter.sent countless users and advertisers fleeing from the social media platform, but it appears to be eroding his support among the core buyers of electric vehicles made by Tesla, the shares of which are his chief personal asset.
FTX claimed it had the most sophisticated computer-driven accounting system in all of crypto, but in fact its system was run by “of inexperienced, unsophisticated, and potentially compromised individuals,” in the words of John Ray, who is functioning as the bankruptcy receiver. That reputation came crashing down in October, when it unaccountably joined up with a conspiracy theorist at Vanity Fair tothat the COVID virus escaped from a Chinese biology lab before spreading worldwide. That claim is at odds with prevailing scientific opinion, which holds that the virus reached the human population via infected wildlife.
As I reported, however, numerous other experts determined that ProPublica’s source had mistranslated, selectively quoted and misinterpreted the document. ProPublica also granted undeserved credibility to a U.S. Senate committee report concluding that the virus had escaped from the lab, without adequately informing readers that the report was the product of the committee’s GOP minority and a rehash of the old refuted lab-leak claims.
We know the harvest. Democrats actually augmented their majority in the Senate and kept a sufficiently solid minority caucus in the House to raise the stakes of disarray emerging in the narrow GOP majority.
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