The Politics of Social Media Manipulation

A handbook that names manipulation techniques one by one, from artificial scarcity to the source effect, with worked examples. Written for students and built around media literacy.

MELIA Observatory

A full training guidebook for building media literacy, with exercises and session plans. The most practical defence manual in this collection.

Sylvia Braesel and Thorsten Karg

A handbook on how disinformation campaigns now use AI and synthetic media. Covers deepfakes, coordinated campaigns and the responses available to institutions.

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association

A model of how a firm or a government can steer beliefs across a social network. It identifies which network structures resist manipulation and which ones amplify it.

Mostagir, Ozdaglar and Siderius