We all thought 2020 was the pinnacle of awfulness, with the world beset by the coronavirus and lockdowns, a reckoning over race relations and loads of misinformation everywhere.
Then 2021 showed up and said, "Hold my beer."
A lot of the problems we experienced in 2020, from misinformation to ransomware to QAnon, took it up a notch this year. While 2020 was a steady drip of terrible news, this year was arguably worse because the brief glimpses of hope we did get -- vaccines! -- were snatched away -- delta variant -- leaving us with more uncertainty. The head-fake was devastating.
2021 kicked off with a real low point as a mob, mobilized on social media and emboldened by a call to action by then-President Donald Trump, attacked the US Capitol as members of Congress gathered there to certify the results of Joe Biden's election win.
Things just kept getting worse.
The following is a list of the biggest tech fails of 2021, starting with the worst.
You may be getting some deja vu from 2020's list. Misinformation was a massive problem last year, and continued to be so in 2021. Whether it was dangerous and utterly false conspiracy theories about vaccine risks or the rise of QAnon, it's gotten harder to discriminate between what's real and what's fake. (QAnon followers are still waiting for long dead John F. Kennedy Jr. to return to Dallas, by the way.)
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