another favored technique of lobbyists is the doctoring of wikipedia a site that is widely loathed in the industry for its phenomenal reach and for the fact that a tiny community of editors is able to decide whether a corporation has a controversies section on their wiki or not a ridiculous organization created by a bunch of nerds is tim bell s take on the site accounts associated with bell pottinger were caught scrubbing the profiles of among many others the arms manufacturer and client the paramount group at least two large financial firms and the founder of libel specialists carter ruck it's important for wikipedia to recognize we are a valuable source for accurate information bell told pr week this someone whose company has famously spun the reputations of dictators repressive governments polluting oil firms and arms companies facing bribery charges it even won a contract from the us supported government in iraq to promote the concept of democracy i've seen this in action on living politicians for example a statement of fact that they are employing their spouse on public money being censored out to the point in hand there is ample and remarkable coverage of this man being 'most hated' in respectable printed newspapers so put a paragraph on this phenomena there's actually a refusal to claim he was criticized on social media on this talk page even though a presidential candidate h clinton posted on twitter in relation to it actually rejecting that social media reacted to this individuals actions as it demonstrably did no room for truth or reality on wikipedia when it comes to living corporate figures or politicians even when the material is making news headlines internet pr scum of the earth if they had been around in they'd have taken money from hitler to groom his wikipedia entry and 'editors' would have 'surprisingly' gone along with it