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Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication—Robert W. Gehl and Sean T. Lawson (Cambridge, MA, USA: MIT Press, 2022, 344 pp.)

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Spend enough time online and you will inevitably come across a political debate. Within these debates, you can count on accusations that some participants are actually bots. Though the profiles… Click to show full abstract

Spend enough time online and you will inevitably come across a political debate. Within these debates, you can count on accusations that some participants are actually bots. Though the profiles appear to belong to ordinary people, the accusation is they may actually be fake profiles created to spread propaganda and mislead people.

Keywords: engineering crowdmasters; hackers trolls; crowdmasters phreaks; phreaks hackers; trolls created; social engineering

Journal Title: IEEE Technology and Society Magazine
Year Published: 2023

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