"Prey" that told the story of nanobots that essentially took over the world.

May I reccomend:

Crabs take over the Island” by Anatoly Dneprov

is a fearful tale about the evolution of metal crabs that can replicate using scrap metal. An engineer invented the crabs as a war tool, intending the crabs to consume enemy metal (aircraft, tanks, etc.) in an effort to replicate themselves.

Maybe and then again maybe not. How would we know? What evidence is there? Because he says so? I get visions of the moon landing all over again. It was very good PR. Everyone believed.

“We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false.”, -- William J. Casey, CIA Director 1981-1987.

Can we just keep it to to brain dead presidents, covid and pedos for now.