Ukraine also employs internet manipulation as a tactic, albeit a little more publicly.
This has led to accusations of cover-ups and manipulation.
The lanky, affable Krasinski then spent he better part of a minute untying his tongue on the subject of cinematic manipulation and why it was a Bad Thing, all the while wiggling his feet, as if awaiting rescue from the school bell.
The result of this perfectly legal manipulation is that, in the words of Game of Thrones author George RR Martin, "The Sad Puppies have broken the Hugo awards, and I am not sure they can ever be repaired".
Due to a decade of tri-annual BBC2 exposure, dogged Dantean circuits of provincial comedy venues, conscious manipulation of vulnerable broadsheet opinion formers and undeserved good luck, I am now popular enough to have caught the eye of touts or, as we now dignify them, Secondary Ticketing Agents™.
Gormly raised another possibility, asking Murray "whether you consider, having heard that one story is going to one psychiatrist, another is going to another psychiatrist, that there is some manipulation going on there".
António Horta-Osório, Lloyds' boss, apologised for the interest rate manipulation, which saw the bank hit with a bill of £226m on Monday.
An orderly mechanism for exiting from the eurozone should be devised and then essentially be removed from manipulation by national elites.
She had no time for the manipulation that can go on in the director-actor relationship.
The committee had passed a package of four separate bills related to trade, including one to prevent currency manipulation by China.
We focused on this area because of the judgment required in accounting for the commercial income deals and the risk of manipulation of these balances".
