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these are the top 5 tech turkeys for 2016 there's been a lot of missteps this year so let's get to the worst of the worst and number 5 is Facebook the giant social network faced a bunch of problems in 2016 Facebook has been blamed for the election of Donald Trump to the presidency because false news spread on the site very quickly the company also accidentally declared the Philippines within the state of war by inverting the colors on the country's flag red on top of blue denote that country is at war otherwise it should be blue above red and number 4 some Pokemon goal players the game Pokemon go caught fire but introduced the world to some people who just did not understand limits some Pokemon goal players will enter memorials dedicated to remembering victims of tragedies in search of Pokemon others would play the game and be careless like the two players who fell off a 90-foot cliff because they were not paying attention and number 3 Twitter the company still seems like it's trying to figure out what it is this year it picked up some steam and video streaming with deals to show football games and the presidential elections so maybe it's a video site now maybe but then again twitter did announce plans to kill a divine mobile app then they're all the rumors that twitter is up for sale potential buyers reportedly included Disney Apple and alphabet but apparently nobody wanted Twitter and number 2 Yahoo Yahoo looked like it was about to be put out of its misery with Verizon swooping in to purchase the company then Yahoo told the world about the biggest hack in history at least 500 million Yahoo accounts were compromised then reports circulated that yahoo may have helped the US government spy on customers emails at number one is Samsung Samsung started the year off pretty well it introduced the Galaxy s7 and s7 edge then there was all the excitement over the Galaxy Note 7 yea then things got bad reports were everywhere that the note 7 was overheating Samsung wound up recalling the note 7 not once but twice after the new improved models were still not safe oh then stamps on how to recall 2.8 million washing machines due to excessive vibration and the top shaking off leading to injuries better luck next year but there were way more than five tech turkeys this year check out our super-sized list of more than 30 turkeys at cnet.com special thanks to Roger Cheng for his help I my as act iron I'll see you online gobble gobble everybody