During the night of 8–9 February 2021, cybercriminals broke into the information system of the Dax hospital in France. They remotely took control of the network and launched a ransomware attack. Within a few hours, thousands of confidential medical files were locked and rendered inaccessible. This topic is deeply personal to me: my mother is a nurse and had to manage the aftermath of a cyberattack at the hospital where she worked. The consequences were immediate: operations

In today’s media ecosystem, the scarcest resource isn’t information - it’s attention. We - Gen Z in Georgia - don’t “go online”, we live there. Georgian Gen Z behaves like Gen Z everywhere - feed-first, video-native, creator-trusting, and DM-driven - because the same attention infrastructure (platform penetration + fast mobile) organizes their media choices. Local context shapes topics and tone , but the mechanics  of discovery and trust are universal.  As Herbert A. Simon  (

The Puzzle: Why would influential Georgian businessmen pour millions into pro-government, anti-Western broadcasters like  Imedi TV  and  POSTV , even as these outlets rack up massive losses? At first glance, the economics make no sense. Traditional business logic would suggest that investors avoid money-losing ventures. Yet, when viewed as  political infrastructure rather than profit centers,  the rationale becomes clear. These media outlets provide  political protection, inf