1. 82 (a technique of influence is "manipulative to the extent that it does not sufficiently engage or appeal to [a person's] capacity for reflection and deliberation"). That definition, however, raises the problem of how to distinguish manipulation from a wide range of ordinary techniques of marketing. A third approach would focus on real or objective interests: manipulation is persuasion that leverages lack of knowledge and emotional vulnerability to cause people to act against their real interests;E G Cass;The Ethics of Influence: Government in the Age of Behavioral Science,2016
2. the company was widely criticised for manipulating material from people's personal lives in order to play with user emotions or make them sad;BBC News,2014
3. Engineering an Election;Jonathan Zittrain;Harvard Law Review Forum,2014
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5. Our Minds Can Be Hijacked': The Tech Insiders who Fear a Smartphone Dystopia;Paul Lewis;Guardian,2017