Cognitive Cyber Crimes in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

9AI-Powered Misinformation Campaigns and Subliminal Influence Tactics

Rajesh Kumar Chakrawarti¹*, A. Samson Arun Raj², Alpesh Soni³ and Sachin Chirgaiya⁴

¹Sushila Devi Bansal College of Technology, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

²Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Karunya Nagar, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

³Department of CSE, SVIIT, SVVV, Indore, India

⁴Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (AI&DS) SVIIT, SVVV, Indore, India

Abstract

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI)–powered misinformation campaigns and subliminal influence tactics have emerged as potent threats to information integrity, especially across digital platforms. This research presents a novel detection and analysis framework leveraging the FakeNewsNet dataset, which integrates news content, social context, and spatiotemporal information. We propose a hybrid model named SIMAIT (Subliminal Influence and Misinformation AI Tracker) that fuses BERT-based contextual embedding, sentiment shift analysis, and multilayered propagation path detection (MLPPD) to identify and quantify both overt and covert misinformation patterns. The model achieves an accuracy of 98.92%, precision of 97.84%, recall of 96.45%, and an F1 score of 97.14% in misinformation classification, while detecting subliminal manipulations with a correlation coefficient (r) of 0.87 compared to ground-truth psychological baselines. The proposed system demonstrates substantial ...