A brand new report published by an independent journalist, Lee Fang, is claiming that Hunter Biden hired specialist public relations firms to help make edits to his Wikipedia page to help improve his public image. The companies allegedly employed the use of anonymous accounts to try and make the edits that were made look organic, or non-manufactured. You know, like they might have come from a PR firm desperately attempting to make a corrupt sleaze not look like, well, a corrupt sleaze.
Hunter should seriously consider asking for a refund.
Breitbart News says that Hunter hired FTI consulting, a large PR consulting firm that also did a lot of work for Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that has connections to the Biden family. Well, that explains a lot, doesn’t it?
Here’s what Lee Fang had to say on the topic:
Hunter, the emails show, sought to delete a line explaining that the National Endowment for Democracy, which he previously worked with, had ties to the CIA. He also pushed to include more official titles from his various NGO board memberships.
On May 28, 2014, an account called “AmeliaChevalier” edited Hunter’s Wikipedia to delete any reference to “disgraced financier Allen Stanford.” Over the next few weeks, more anonymous Wikipedia accounts began rapidly editing Hunter’s page, records show. Archives of Wikipedia show that a month after engaging with FTI, Hunter’s Wikipedia page had dramatically changed, with negative references scrubbed, and lengthy passages added to discuss his volunteer work, service in government, and appointments to various boards and political committees.
One of the more prolific and anonymous Wikipedia accounts making edits to Hunter’s page was a user called “Earflaps,” which made a number of edits, including the deletion of criticism of Hunter’s work for Burisma, the Ukrainian energy firm. That account was later identified as a “sock puppet,” a term of art used for the illicit pay-for-play editing by fake accounts, to airbrush negative information off of Wikipedia. An investigation found that Earflaps was one of nearly a dozen fake accounts tied to PR firms hired to carefully manage the image of Russian businessmen.
It’s not uncommon for businesses or celebrities to pay someone to professionally edit their Wikipedia page, however, it is a practice that has become more and more suspect thanks to the fact that the vast majority of the editors on the platform are leftists. It’s understandable to hire someone to look over a page and see if there are inaccuracies, as there are bound to be, given the nature of the site itself.
However, that’s not what’s happening here with Hunter Biden. He tried to have the page scrubbed of details that paint him in a negative light. Other progressives, like Jeffrey Zients, who once worked as an advisor to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, tried to have dirt about themselves buried in order not to hurt their political careers.
At the end of the day, there isn’t a whole lot that Hunter Biden can really do to improve his public image. Most of his dirty laundry has been aired out for the whole world to see. And that’s nobody else’s fault.
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