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Detailed explanation-1: -On November 24, 2017, U.S. president Donald Trump, who had been Person of the Year in 2016, posted on the social media network Twitter that Time editors had told him he would “probably” be named Person of the Year for a second time, conditional on an interview and photo shoot which he had refused.

Detailed explanation-2: -Time named billionaire Elon Musk as 2021’s Person of the Year.

Detailed explanation-3: -The award goes to an event or person deemed to have had the most influence on global events over the past 12 months. Other finalists included protesters in Iran, China’s leader Xi Jinping and the US Supreme Court. The magazine’s editor said the decision was “the most clear-cut in memory".

Detailed explanation-4: -Tarana Burke44Activist Burke, founder of a nonprofit that helps survivors of sexual violence, created the Me Too movement in 2006 to encourage young women to show solidarity with one another. It went viral this year after actor Alyssa Milano used the hashtag #MeToo.

Detailed explanation-5: -Every year, Time chooses the person who they think has had the most effect on the things that have happened in that year (whether those things were good or bad). The first Person of the Year was aviator Charles Lindbergh, in 1927.