Hacking Elections For Fun & Profit
summary
Claims Iran runs an attributable state-backed disinformation campaign targeting India, using scraped electoral rolls and beneficiary databases plus WhatsApp and campaign dashboards to microtarget voters at the polling‑booth level; a MissAva app and party dashboards compile profiles that practitioners say swing tight races. Publicized savings like the $12 billion claim on LPG turn out to be orders of magnitude off (analysis finds roughly $1B), showing polling‑booth microtargeting and dimensionality‑reduction psychographic models work to stretch the Overton window despite fact‑checking.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 3:14The First Foreign Disinformation Operation Targeting India
- 6:33Hari Prasad Mamoru
- 11:03Matthew Tate
- 12:49Overton Window
- 13:01Boundaries of a Discourse
- 28:41Taxpaying Vulnerability
- 37:21How To Win an Indian Election
- 40:51Being a Red Team Is Easy Not a Blue Team
- 51:04How To Defend Ourselves on Information Warfare
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44mHow to Fix an Indian Election
01h 03mHow to Steal an Election
29mThe Invisible War to Hijack Minds, Distort the Truth, and Impact Elections
55mEnraptured Minds: Strategic Gaming of Cognitive Mindhacks
52mIran's Soft-War for Internet Dominance
40mHot Topics in Misinformation: Election 2020, COVID 19, and More
10mQuestioning Election Security
20mSurveillance Democracy