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UAE Paid New York Firm Millions To Bury Article On Ambassador's Links To Sex Traffickers: Report
UAE Paid New York Firm Millions To Bury Article On Ambassador's Links To Sex Traffickers: Report
Via The Cradle
The UAE paid New York-based reputation management firm Terakeet more than $6 million to bury a 2017 report revealing that the Emirati ambassador to Washington, Yousef al-Otaiba, had ties to sex workers and traffickers, according to a New York Times (NYT) report published on Sunday.
The campaign was designed to push the Intercept report out of public sight on Google search results. According to Foreign Agents Registration Act records cited by the paper, Terakeet's work for the UAE began in...
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