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🎙️ Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups Behind every official story lies another version of the truth. Hosted by Ben Carter, Conspiracy Theories and Cover-Ups exposes the hidden connections, leaked documents, and suppressed evidence behind history’s most controversial events. From secret government projects and covert wars to media manipulation, unexplained disappearances, and corporate deception — nothing is off limits. We don’t deal in speculation — only in facts, testimonies, and patterns that the world wasn’t meant to see.You won’t find wild claims here — just questions ...

Over the past 10 years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places?

Fully updated chapters continue to address how technology and increasing levels of education have exposed people to more information than ever before. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Over the past several years, the rise of populism and conspiracy theories have taken this to new levels. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism.