It's been a wild time for tech implosions. We asked top PR experts to rank how well — or badly — the fallout has been managed.

Sam Bankman-Fried giving an interview with DealBook's Andrew Ross Sorkin on November 30, 2022 in a segment called "What Happened?"Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images

• There's been some unanticipated drama in the tech industry over the past year.
• Old controversies came to a culmination while new catastrophes bubbled to the surface.

In the past 12 months:

• Sam Bankman-Fried went from being a poster child of the cryptocurrency industry to its biggest wake-up call, and lost the majority of his fortune.
• Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of Theranos, was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison with 3 years on supervised release.
• Elon Musk took over Twitter and promptly laid off half of the company's workforce. Now, he's seeking additional investors for the platform and battling cockroaches in the office.

Enough said.

Crises like these often dovetail with the desire by the people and companies affected to soften the public-relations blow.

We asked top PR experts to rank recent tech industry catastrophes, from the absolute worst in image management to the best. Here are their verdicts.