Enraptured Minds: Strategic Gaming of Cognitive Mindhacks
summary
Demonstrates concrete tools, markets and measurements used to manipulate mass opinion: underground sellers offer €7,000 guaranteed top‑5 YouTube placement, petition fraud at scale with 25,000 votes for ~$2.5k, and bulk aged social accounts at $3–4 each; comment packs cost ~€0.20 per comment and SMS confirmations add cents per vote. Analysis uses Twitter slices, custom scripts and Gephi to find isolated bot communities (MacronLeaks campaign appears just before an election) and shows these services reliably amplify narratives.
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- 0:00Start
- 7:33The story depends on your geo-location
- 21:29Bots is a buzzword
- 22:56Electronic polls and Voting
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