Episode
How to Become a Cult Leader: Control Your Image
Overview
Leverage media coverage to cultivate a pious image like Shoko Asahara, who built the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo on positive PR and deadly methods.
Details
- Series
- How to Become a Cult Leader
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2023-07-28
- Runtime
- 33 min
Episode context
Control Your Image is Episode 5 in Limited Series of How to Become a Cult Leader. It aired on 2023-07-28. The runtime is 33 min.
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