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A London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia articles for governments and billionaires

#Portland #Communications helps rich clients
‘protect their reputation’
– with a shady, off-the-books editing service

The clients who benefitted from this “#wikilaundering” are some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.

The firm's founder,
#Tim #Allan, is now the director of communications for Prime Minister 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.’