on masking twitter aside, th past year brought discoverie both good and bad in the sector jake ward has more for us. 2022 saw the enormous potential and the enormous risks of technology play out over a single year there were a lot of promises made that wound up going nowhere or worse the biggest, of course, with crypto, the stuff of super bow commercials and overnight and in 2022 in flames are sa bankman-fried, founder of ftx, became the face of a crisi which wiped out individual investors and deeply wounded the industry until investigators closed in and ha him arrested in the bahamas. big tech companies, symbols of analyst growth, flailed this year as the economy suffered medicine from the trillion dollar valuation last year t 268 billion dollars this year. advertising fell apart and a blue billions on its founder stream of the metaverse whic we will work and play in tech companies laid off tens o thousands of people. no one tech company grab the headlines quite like twi
county were breeched by a team working on donald trump s bee half. they were led into the office by a trump supporting local official. they were there to look for evidence of election fraud. they made copies of every voting machine hardev drive and every ballot. you have to admit it is brazen move to go breaching election systems in support of his lies literally the day after the election lies sparked the violent assault. but there they were. doing justth that. obviously, we talk a lot p about january 6th. it is worth taking a moment to consider january 5th and january 7th as well. and it s no accident that both those ventsnt that book ended january 6th as big election victory for democrats and possibly criminal election system breach in support of donald trump s s election lies that both of those events happened in the state of georgia. it s a microcosm of everything happening in o american politic. take that election data breech inha coffee county. that incident is part of
natasha bertrand joins us now. this is fascinating reporting that you have for us this morning. tell us what you learned. there has been a steady drum beat of explosions and fires in russia over the last year targeting oil depots, fuel depots, railways, pipelines. officials noticed marketed inc increase in those kinds of attacks and how brazen they ve become beginning, of course with, that drone attack on the kremlin last month. u.s. officials are now telling us that they do believe that ukraine has agents and sympathizers inside russia that are carrying out the attacks on ukraine s bee half. not only that, but also that ukraine has actually given them drones in order to carry out these acts of sabotage. now, there are still a number of questions here including whether all of the drone attacks that we have seen over the last several weeks inside russia have been carried out by these pro ukraine sympathizers and agents.
up right down. let s swing over t entertainment and culture. will smith, is a brand down fo obvious reasons. one of the bigges entertainment stories of the year his score was one of the highest there is, the most likable guy. this is a brand that i think i permanently damaged. when you see it you have not heard much from him since. you can t hide truth you can t hide video what he did was the most assaulted, megalomaniaca absurd thing i don t think you can watch it will smith movie again and fee the same way about it. he came out and did a me culpa. i am just very curious to se what kind of studio is going t put their money behind wil smith. even the apologies have bee half baked he s trying to come out and do them top gun maverick was m favorite movie of this year. it got people excited abou movies and going back to the movie again. tom cruise, biggest movie star in the world. no question about that
county were breeched by a team working on donald trump s bee half. they were led into the office by a trump supporting local official. they were there to look for evidence of election fraud. they made copies of every voting machine hardev drive and every ballot. you have to admit it is brazen move to go breaching election systems in support of his lies literally the day after the election lies sparked the violent assault. but there they were. doing justth that. obviously, we talk a lot p about january 6th. it is worth taking a moment to consider january 5th and january 7th as well. and it s no accident that both those ventsnt that book ended january 6th as big election victory for democrats and possibly criminal election system breach in support of donald trump s s election lies that both of those events happened in the state of