Social engineering

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Social engineering is influencing particular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale. This is often undertaken by governments, or mass media, but may also be carried out by academia or private groups in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Social engineering (political science)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia