Remember Bastiat. This is what you can see. Then there is what you don't see and the unintended consequences. :-)

Thanks. I need some optimism, could you elaborate further?

I was quoting the famous book from Bastiat (That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen: An Economic Essay). To cut it REALLY short, though he intended it as a ferocius criticism of state intervention (behind any intervention, even in good faith, there are always bad unintended consequences), I think that the principle could be extended and lightened up by considering that many of the "bad unintended consequences" are in fact bad for the state itself or for those who believe in it, at least in the long run. Almost all the facts you mentioned (though the second is proven fake) can have bad consequences but also good ones, for example making it clearer and clearer that states are criminal associations. Throughout history, we have seen that totalitarian regimes can push propaganda and fake news so far, but they need to keep pushing to survive (propaganda is like a drug, you need to provide it in ever increasing amount and potency), so they turn ridiculous and/or show their true face. That's when they fall. I think (and hope...) we are very close to that point, expecially in Europe.

Got your point. Second order consequences can be also positively unpredictable. History unfortunately shows that oftentimes majorities realize the nasty effects of state/corporate propaganda on their wellbeing only when it's too late. Especially war propaganda. 'Circenses' stop working when 'Panem' is already too scarce and the bombs are falling.

"'Circenses' stop working when 'Panem' is already too scarce and the bombs are falling." Might be different in the Internet age, and I think it is. States are by design obsolete, so they don't understand reality. In fact, the kind of propaganda they are using is still the same as Goebbles', but the times are very different. Though they try to use the net, they do not understand it in full. They were just lucky that we also started to use it to full potential only in the last few years, a fact so well shown by Nostr and similar projects, which show the true potential of global distributed knowledge against centralized decisions. They are starting to fall back, as you can see for example by the fast failing propaganda on gender and climate.