"Social" in this context refers to psyche (or adjective psychic) as you found out with help of French. If one reads the Wikipedia article, one realises, that it's more a question of manipulating minds rather than mining ore, building and maintaining machines or other engineering activities. So I would say psika manipulado.

"Social" in this context refers to psyche (or adjective psychic) as you found out with help of French. If one reads the Wikipedia article, one realises, that it's more a question of manipulating minds rather than mining ore, building and maintaining machines or other engineering activities. So I would say psika manipulado.

Addendum 2021-01-07

I like Eduardo's suggestion of menso for the object of the manipulation, so I revise my answer to mensa manipulado. And if you need to express that it concerns technics for or study of the manipulation:

• tekniko por mensa manipulado
• studo de mensa manipulado

        and so on