#Wikilaundering

@rebjefwill.bsky.social

1 week ago

#wikilaundering

Sohan Dsouza

@sohandsouza.info

1 month ago

«Drowning out critical reporting under neutral or positive information is a common tactic deployed by PR firms, according to insiders who spoke to us for our recent investigation into influence operations targeting Wikipedia.»

#wikilaundering #EpsteinFiles #PR #inauthentic #Wikipedia

Chuck Darwin

@cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy

1 month ago

A London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia articles for governments and billionaires

Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients
‘protect their reputation’
– with a shady, off-the-books editing service […]

@justiceseer.bsky.social

1 month ago

London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service

What have:
* #Starmer's "Director of Communications"- #TimAllan?🤔
* #PRFirm- #PortlandComunications?🤔
* #WebConsultant- #Radek-Kotlarek?🤔
* SHADY, "paid-for EDITS" of #Wikipedia -at #Portland's behest?🤔

.. GOT in COMMON?🤔😖

#Wikilaundering, #Fraud!👇🤑🤬

www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...?

Owen Boswarva

@owenboswarva.bsky.social

2 months ago

Now, we can reveal Wikipedia has been subject to shady, paid-for edits ordered by partners at an elite London PR firm with links to Downing Street. And the clients who benefitted from this "wikilaundering" are some of the world's richest and most powerful people. The firm in question is Portland Communications, whose founder Tim Allan is now the director of communications for Keir Starmer. And it has been busted once already for this practice, which is in breach of the British PR professionals' code of conduct. But after the firm was exposed, former employees told us, it simply started hiring middlemen instead. As one of them put it: "No one said, 'We should stop doing this.' The question was how we could keep doing it without getting caught."

London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026... TBIJ on "black hat edits" reportedly commissioned by Portland Communications

Guardian coverage www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#reputationmanagement #wikilaundering #openweb