Quite a questioning and informative post on the topics you mentioned. The parts about technology and media took my attention most on it.
To me, scientific developments has served for military purposes at first and new technologies has always been introduced and let for public use after a better or a newer one invented for the same purpose. I must state that I may be totally wrong or right to some extent, too. Who knows I may be misinformed due to the infollution created by media and social media lately because there are so many conspiracy theories out there.
Difference reports of media is probably a worldwide problem that most countries may be suffering from. Unfortunately in many of them those differences are not restricted by only a few topics. It is almost in every topic like politics, sports, vaccines (not only about Covid19), art, movies, education, etc. The list can go on. Unfortunately, those differences create a great disagreement on even simple issues among people which may lead to serious problems for public peace. People tend to defend what they are imposed blindly.
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