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> the people it works the best on are also most susceptible to compromising secrets due to their deep seated insecurities

Can you elaborate on that? Who are the people it works best on? How are deep seated insecurities related to propensity to revealing secrets? Is this just an online thing or is this type of person more likely to reveal secrets in an intelligence operation scenario? How do you know all of this?




It works best on young men who are socially, romantically and sometimes financially struggling. It gives them a sense of power and belonging to the state, something greater than themselves. The same mechanisms that make this propaganda successful can be used (willingly or organically) to cause the effected individual to take other actions. Here someone wanted to brag so they leaked secrets online. One would argue people like Timothy McVeigh were similar, with much different results.

Further reading:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

- https://archive.org/details/aberrationinhear0000pain/page/70...


Financial struggles are a contra-indication for receiving a security clearance however.


That's why I said sometimes financial, because there are people who are well off or at least have it together financially that can still be exploited with propaganda.




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