Most armies march in formation. This one hides in your feed.

In Episode 14 of the Mind War Podcast, Brad and Grandmaster pull apart the hidden machinery behind coordinated influence campaigns — the invisible battalions operating inside comment sections, trending tabs, private group chats, and algorithmic choke points.

This episode exposes how manufactured consensus is built in real time:

how one account becomes ten, ten become a hundred, and a hundred become a digital swarm capable of tilting narratives, burying stories, or resurrecting ideas that should have died years ago. Some of these accounts are paid. Some are automated. Some are real people who don’t even realize they’ve been recruited into a psychological operation.

We break down:

• How phantom networks form and spread
• Why outrage and praise are us ...