The latest Past Present Future is a perfect rethink for our times. The Umberto Eco essay under review invites four notes:

1) that most state scandals are mere PR, but

2) before modern tech PR was more in gov't control; now tech invites democratization, except

3) there's too much info for us to sift through, compelling the need for new filters, even as

4) old tech reasserts itself for real espionage the more the masses are bedazzled by PR on the new.

A worthy listen.
https://pca.st/episode/1a646714-7abe-4436-b80d-81e3e0d85ee0