Technocracy refers to the rule of individuals or groups that possess certain professional and educational qualifications. The most important elements of economic development in history were private capital and the work of workers, but today economic development is governed by professional authority and a system of modern communications. The society we live in is constantly being modernized. Especially in the postmodern world, the rule of experts has become an indispensable component of any orderly state. The influence of the technocratic society was also shown through the Covid-19 pandemic, during which their media exposure became even greater and more influential. Knowledge is an indispensable tool for the progress of society, so technocrats have an important role to play − 2 to preserve the development of the human species by making the most optimal decisions in accordance with a particular situation. Given the media exposure due to the pandemic, the world public has placed its trust in the experts who were most competent to make the right decisions. However, over time and by the impact of lockdown on the global financial crisis, confidence in the rulers is starting to decrease. An analysis of the content of the internet portal 24sata.hr was conducted in order to point out the contradictions regarding the measures adopted by the Civil Protection Headquarters of the Republic of Croatia. 116 articles ranging from March 2020 to December 2020 were analyzed. The Croatian example provides an insight into the problems of the functioning of the Croatian economy and the instability of the state caused by external factors.