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Information Networks and Manipulative Technologies in the Arsenal of Extremists

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Knowledge in the Information Society (PCSF 2020, CSIS 2020)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 184))

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All anti-social phenomena that occur on a mass scale, especially such as extremism, terrorism, drug addiction/trafficking, etc. leave their traces in the information space. To counteract the intelligence agencies, mislead the population, recruit more and more adepts, and put pressure on the authorities, criminals use manipulative methods aimed at softening the edge of critical judgment, reducing criticality, and distorting public consciousness. The review of investigative and judicial practice shows, that traditionally there is a high percentage of programmers, political strategists, and psychologists with advanced knowledge of IT technologies in any illegal or semi-legitimate group of radicals (not to mention international scale terrorist structures). Many people (especially those disorganized, poorly educated, maladaptive, or easily suggestible) radically change their attitudes, life concepts, needs, and lose their positive social skills as a result of intensive informational and psychological brainwashing. In this article, the Author explores criminal informational and manipulative influences/impacts of an extremist orientation and analyzes the social and psychological qualities of criminals, who are the leaders of extremist groups and possess a pronounced manipulative potential. The author drew some conclusions, in particular, the fact that the manipulative effect of a criminal leader inside and outside a group depends both on the personal qualities of the leader himself, and the general social situation, the value orientations of the significant part of the population, the orientation of interests, and the results framework of addressees (recipients) living in a particular region.

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Tretyakov, I.L. (2021). Information Networks and Manipulative Technologies in the Arsenal of Extremists. In: Bylieva, D., Nordmann, A., Shipunova, O., Volkova, V. (eds) Knowledge in the Information Society. PCSF CSIS 2020 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 184. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65857-1_13

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