Reputation Security Think Tank
After a couple of months searching for professional inspiration and sense of determination I finally decided to post. The truth is that there were so many things happening this summer, so finding time for updating the blog seemed as unattainable luxury. Besides, writing about hacking reputations is not very easy task, especially when your prime goal is to detect smear operations and to provide enough evidences to back your research up. [...]
As you probably have already heard, Barack Obama recently launched a brand new sub-domain, aiming to tackle false information throughout the Web. As far as I know, this is the one of the first mature attempts in the field of politics to wage an official war against political smear campaigns. Unfortunately, the release of the site was a bit late, since the Internet is already stuffed with numerous negative allegations and rumors about both presidential candidates. [...]
There is a big dispute over the PR community whether or not, the Black PR strategies are entirely based on lies and deception. Well, the truth is that no one can estimate for sure how many of them are actually made of false statements and imaginative facts, but there is a huge difference between professionally made smear campaigns and those which happen to have completely incidental outcomes. [...]