- One of Biden, Trump or Putin dies of natural causes. Approximately 50% of people do not believe the official story.
- A NATO base is hit with a Russian missile, leading to increased saber rattling but ultimately not to any full-scale war
- There is no peace agreement in Ukraine but there is a temporary cease-fire which is eventually broken by a rogue faction of the Ukrainian military
- Excess deaths continue above pre-2021 levels
- China does not invade Taiwan, but there are large scale protests in one of Taiwan or Hong Kong.
- TikTok is not banned
- Twitter does not crash. By the end of the year there is news that Musk is shopping around to take it public again.
- Civil unrest in Egypt is violently oppressed but there is no change in power
- There is a tragic accident in the Space travel industry
- Zuckerberg steps down as CEO of Meta
- Jack Dorsey returns as CEO of Twitter
- At least one major VPN provider is found to be operated or sponsored by a US intelligence agency
- A new social network becomes popular after introducing an alternative means of consuming news stories