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Editorial Review For Reality Hacked: Inside the Hidden
World of Bot Farms, Fake News, and Digital Manipulation
Sergey Berezkin’s Reality Hacked takes readers inside
a world that feels both unreal and uncomfortably close. It explains how modern
bot farms run like digital factories, producing not goods but influence. The
book tracks their evolution from simple marketing tools to global systems that
shape opinion, politics, and even emotion. Each chapter builds on the idea that
information is the new battleground, and human attention is the prize.
Berezkin’s strength lies in how he treats manipulation as
infrastructure, not mystery. He doesn’t drown the reader in jargon. Instead, he
lays out the mechanics of deception with precision. He shows how fake accounts,
automation, and emotional triggers combine to make lies profitable. His
discussion of “industrialized psychology” and “cognitive security” gives the
book weight. It reads like a field manual for anyone tired of being played by
algorithms.
The book fits squarely within the growing trend of tech
nonfiction that treats misinformation as an economic system. It sits alongside
titles like The Chaos Machine and Mindfck*, but with less moral
panic and more analysis. Berezkin writes from a space between cybersecurity
report and social commentary, showing how automation and emotion now share a
business model.
Readers who like investigative work, digital culture, or
modern history will find this book worth their time. It’s not for those who
want comfort. It’s for people who enjoy seeing how the sausage of the internet
is made—and realizing they may have helped season it.
Verdict: Reality Hacked is sharp, direct, and
occasionally uncomfortable. It makes you look at every trending topic and
wonder who’s really posting. And that’s the point.