Part 2 - A Citizen’s Guide to the Evolution of Political Persuasion

Dark Patterns and the New Propaganda

Mind Control

In Part 1, we traced the historical arc from the town square to the digital feed and from open civic dialogue to an era of engineered persuasion. We saw how political communication has moved away from open public conversations and into tightly controlled digital spaces where algorithms shape what we see based on what will trigger the stronge…