Computational propaganda:
«AI and machine learning technologies enable computational propaganda bots to tailor their campaigns in real-time and spread with virus-like scale. Essentially, these bots identify and exploit people who are computationally pre-determined to be the most vulnerable to digital psychological manipulation. Political propagandists, such as the infamous firm Cambridge Analytica, exploit traits in people that signal their level of susceptibility to different psychological manipulations. Examples of such traits are detailed in leaked emails from the firm. Traits include allegiance to a political party, stances on hot-button issues such as gun-control, and even if a person is neurotic, suspicious of others, or believes in astrological signs.»
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https://www.cbinsights.com/research/future-of-information-warfare/