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Michael Calore: In one word?

Lauren Goode: I’ll give you a phrase.

Michael Calore: Elon Musk.

Lauren Goode: Oh yeah? It sounds like a proper noun.

Michael Calore: YES.

Lauren Goode: It sounds like an inappropriate noun.

Michael Calore: I mean, he’s looming. How about you?

Lauren Goode: I went with a dictionary, so I chose not heal.

Michael Calore: Unfortunate.

Lauren Goode: Unfortunate.

Michael Calore: It’s darkness.

Lauren Goode: Search. It’s dark. It was, but it was a strange year.

Michael Calore: It was a very strange year. I mean, all years are weird, but I think this year is off the charts.

Lauren Goode: We should talk about it.

Michael Calore: Let’s do it.

[Gadget Lab intro theme music plays]

Lauren Goode: Hi everybody. Welcome to the Utility Lab. I’m Lauren Goode. I am a senior writer at WIRED.

Michael Calore: I’m Michael Calore. I’m a senior editor at WIRED.

Lauren Goode: This is our last Gadget Lab episode of the year. We used to publish a replay episode around this time of year, but we’ve heard that you all really enjoyed listening to Gadget Lab in December, maybe because you’re looking for a little Escape from family or you’re traveling and you need some shells for the long trip. So we’ll be filming here mid-December and hopefully you’ll find some fun in this episode. So Mike and I thought and debated a lot about the biggest tech news of 2022. As journalists, we cover the news regularly, but a big part of our job is also being news consumers. crazy news and we’re both completely immersed in all things metadata, Web3, Zuck, Apple, Twitter, SBF.

Michael Calore: Elon.

Lauren Goode: Elon Musk. Mike, I’ll get straight to the point. What do you think is the biggest tech news of 2022?

Michael Calore: Well, when we were preparing for this episode, we made our own list of things that we wanted to talk about and then we shared our list with each other. I have something to say, but I think what you want to say is more important. So we should talk about that first, and that’s Tweelon.

Lauren Goode: Twelve.

Michael Calore: Mr. Twelon.

Lauren Goode: YES. I mean, you pretty much hinted at this in our program introduction that this is going to be a big topic for us today. So this first started in April when Elon Musk said he would buy a 9.2% stake in Twitter and exercise his influence over the company through the board. Then he quickly said he wouldn’t be on the board, and then a few days later he announced his intention to just buy Twitter, just buying it for about $44 billion. Now, a lot happened in the months that followed, as Musk later accused Twitter of having a bigger bot problem than initially revealed. Twitter investors have sued Musk time and time again. Musk seems to be trying to find a way out of the deal while the rest of us are trying to envision what an Elon-owned Twitterverse would look like. Then, at the end of October, it actually happened. The deal is over and Tweelon, as we called it here at WIRED, is a real thing, but of course, it doesn’t look like the chaos disappears—quite the opposite. Musk fired half of the Twitter staff. He announced and then withheld plans for a new verification plan and increased subscription fees for Twitter Blue. He has restored several prominent accounts on the platform. He blocked several others. He’s released a series of files on content moderation that seem very transparent about performance. Most recently, he provoked conservative trolls by tweeting something derogatory about people’s preferred pronouns. Yes, and by the way, this is mid-December as I mentioned.

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