“PR professionals have largely flown under the radar when it comes to the fight against dirty money and kleptocracy. However, this report shows how PR agents can play a key role in laundering the reputation of corrupt players from overseas and help them to establish networks within the UK”
— Thomas Mayne, Research Fellow, University of Oxford “What’s the Risk? PR & Communication Agencies and Kleptocracy“
Spin Machine
Fake NGO ‘APS’ is a PR Company Creation
Dirty Tricks By Samling’s PR Department?
When it comes to ripping out forests, dodging environmental restrictions and heavy handed tactics towards indigenous protests, the global timber giant, Samling, leads the field. However, when it comes to the subtler arts of communication, specifically disinformation known as ‘Black PR’, the Sarawak loggers appear out of their depth…..
PR Cat & Mouse Games By Pro-Samling ‘Sustainability NGO’, APS?
The mystery ‘NGO’, Advokasi Pribumi Sarawak (Sarawak Indigenous People’s Advocate), has complained SR “discredited” it by suggesting it was a PR outfit for the logging giant Samling. Why at the same time has the PR company behind the outfit pulled its client portfolio off the web and changed its contact numbers?….
Samling’s Ongoing Greenwash Campaign Needs Calling Out
Samling’s egregious greenwash campaign just plumbed new depths as the company claims validation from Save Rivers, the NGO it has simultaneously sued for criticising its operations. Branding entities must not be taken in ……
Taib Paid Out $5 Million To Attack Sarawak Report
Dirty Tricks
Taib’s Big Boob As He Launches Cyber-war Attempt!
Taib finally waded into the ‘cyber-war’ this week – and ended up branding his son-in-law a liar! The septuagenarian is notoriously shy of interviews and has avoided TV appearances for years, but he has been under pressure to answer our findings on Sarawak Report […]
Gordon Brown Made Victim of Taib’s Malicious Internet Campaign
The former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has been caught up in a vicious defamation campaign run by right wing bloggers in the United States and then reproduced in Malaysia online. The bloggers have been hired by Chief Minister Taib Mahmud [..]
Dirty Tricks Campaign Targets Anwar Too
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is being targeted by the same malicious on-line bloggers who have sought to defame former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former US Ambassador John Malott. Research by Sarawak Report has identified clear evidence that the same team of paid writers have been working on a sustained campaign of deliberate vilification of Anwar, […]
Exposed ! – The Bearded Blogger Behind The Dirty Tricks Campaigns
Sarawak Report can reveal that a key orchestrator behind the dirty tricks campaigns that have been waged against Anwar Ibrahim, Gordon Brown and Sarawak Report is a ginger-bearded American blogger named Josh Trevino. Trevino claims he was a speech-writer for George Bush and he is a founder of the popular Republican blog, Red State. His outspoken, far-right views have provoked controversy […]