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This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at Digital Psychological Warfare and explore the exploitation of emerging technologies and corresponding impact on human psychology and behaviour across the globe. The book discusses the psychology of individuals involved from many perspectives including victims of online trolling, digital hate speech, disinformation, Big Tech firms, hackers, and cybercriminals. It explores the motivations of both those carrying out digital psychological warfare and its victims. The books covers lots of case studies to prove how the motivations of those carrying out psychological operations and its victims, coupled with threat vectors can lead to huge impact not just in cybersecurity but to society at large. It discusses the role of psychological vulnerabilities, bias and human factors on them being targeted online. Interviews were conducted with victims of online radicalisation, trolling abuse and digital hate speech to understand motivations and psychology from many perspectives.
List of contents
Our Psychological Vulnerabilities.- Information Warfare And Cyber Propaganda.- Interview with Victim of Troll Factory Abuse.- Cognitive Warfare and Fake News in the Post-Truth Era Weaponisation of Social Media linked to Anxiety and Depression.- Interview with Victims of Digital Hate Speech.- ISIS Radicalisation: A Digital Strategy Of Weaponising Grievance.- Interview with Victims of Online Radicalisation.- Artificial Intelligence: Invasion of Privacy, Identity Theft And Manipulation.- Cambridge Analytica: Psychographic Profiling And Microtargeting.- Interview with Victim of Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal.- Psychological Manipulation in the Brexit Referendum.- Interview with Victim of Digital Psychological Manipulation.- Russian Psychological Techniques in the 2016 US Election.- Interview with Victim of Psychographic Profiling And Microtargeting.- Russia: Disinformation War.- Interview with Victim of Russia's Active Measures And Disinformation.- Russian Hacking Operations And Cyber Attacks.- Interview with Victim of Russian Hacking Operations and APT groups.- China: Mass Surveillance, Censorship And Robot Police.- Interview with Taiwanese Victim of Disinformation.- India: Bots, Ballots and Bullets.- Interview with Victim of Disinformation.- Virtual Reality: An Amplifier For Disinformation.
About the author
Tarnveer Singh
FBCS FCIIS is Fellow of the British Computer Society and Chartered Institute of Information Security, UK. He has served as the Director of Cyber Wisdom LTD. and is the author of multiple books including Digital Resilience, Cybersecurity and Supply Chains (2025), Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: A Field Guide for Stakeholders (2025) and Finance Transformation: Leadership on Digital Transformation and Disruptive Innovation (2025).
Summary
This groundbreaking book takes a fresh look at Digital Psychological Warfare and explore the exploitation of emerging technologies and corresponding impact on human psychology and behaviour across the globe. The book discusses the psychology of individuals involved from many perspectives including victims of online trolling, digital hate speech, disinformation, Big Tech firms, hackers, and cybercriminals. It explores the motivations of both those carrying out digital psychological warfare and its victims. The books covers lots of case studies to prove how the motivations of those carrying out psychological operations and its victims, coupled with threat vectors can lead to huge impact not just in cybersecurity but to society at large. It discusses the role of psychological vulnerabilities, bias and human factors on them being targeted online. Interviews were conducted with victims of online radicalisation, trolling abuse and digital hate speech to understand motivations and psychology from many perspectives.
