Digital Psychological Warfare

This book applies a fresh approach towards analysing digital psychological warfare and explores the exploitation of emerging technologies and their impact on human psychology and behaviour across the globe. The book discusses the psychology of the individuals involved in such misuses from many perspectives, including victims of online trolling, digital hate speech, disinformation, Big Tech firms, hackers, and cybercriminals. It explores the motivations of both those carrying out digital psychological warfare and its impact upon the victims, including many case studies. The books demonstrates how it can have a huge impact, not only within the field of cybersecurity but to society at large. It discusses the role of psychological vulnerabilities, bias and human factors on them being targeted online. Finally, the book includes interviews conducted with victims of online radicalisation, trolling abuse and digital hate speech to understand motivations and psychology from many perspectives.


Tarnveer Singh FBCS FCIIS is Fellow of the British Computer Society and Chartered Institute of Information Security, UK. He has served as the Director of Cyber Wisdom LTD. and is the author of multiple books including Digital Resilience, Cybersecurity and Supply Chains (2025), Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: A Field Guide for Stakeholders (2025) and Finance Transformation: Leadership on Digital Transformation and Disruptive Innovation (2025).