manipulated

This level considers understanding fears, and how they are inflamed and manipulated.

Our brain flaws need to be better understood by the public, because they are being manipulated.

Yet they have also had their fears and prejudices manipulated by reactionary social forces or believe they will somehow benefit from the maintenance of an oppressive status quo, to say nothing of the creation of an even more oppressive alternative under the pro-plutocracy, pro-white nationalist, pro-patriarchy Trump.

On publication of the findings, the Archbishop of Canterbury apologised again to victims, and said Smyth's abuse had "manipulated Christian truth to justify his evil acts".

We can expect him to use the office in blatantly transactional ways and be easily manipulated by opportunistic actors, foreign and domestic.