Category: manipulation
The Trust Algorithm
Detective Sarah Park investigates a series of sophisticated frauds committed by individuals who had undergone trust-building training, only to discover that her own partner has been using these manipulation techniques on her throughout their professional relationship.
Read moreThe Social Architect
Social media strategist Maya Chen believes she's helping revitalize a struggling community through innovative social engineering, only to discover she's an unwitting agent in a complex hierarchy of manipulation experiments where even the researchers are being manipulated by higher authorities.
Read moreThe Perfect Neighbor
Sarah investigates her mysteriously perfect neighbor David Chen, only to discover he's actually her missing ex-husband Marcus who was psychologically reconstructed by a company that creates artificial community stabilizers.
Read moreThe Empathy Machine
Dr. Rachel Torres treats a patient with enhanced empathic abilities who can manipulate emotions with surgical precision, only to discover she's part of an ongoing experiment to test whether artificial empathy can evolve into genuine compassion.
Read moreThe Puppet Master
Dr. Elena Vasquez believes she's treating a manipulative patient who's systematically destroying her life through an elaborate network of psychological control, only to discover she's actually the patient in a psychiatric facility, and the conspiracy is a delusion created by her own fractured mind.
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