Digital Manipulation

TED Radio Hour, here. 

Should’ve Stayed in Vegas

Your Undivided Attention Podcast, here.

We’re all being manipulated by A/B testing all the time

Fast Company, here. 

Vente-Privée et « l’illusion de faire une bonne affaire » : le site rejette les accusations

Numérama, here.

Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital World

D. Susser, B. Rossler, H. Nissenbaum, here. 

How Humans Get Hacked

Wired, Video here. 

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

R. Shiller, Book Talk, Video here.

Phishing ("an attempt to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details - and sometimes, indirectly, money- often for malicious reasons, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication").
Phools: not in the Indian sense (flowers in Urdu پھول) - just idiots.