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Welcome to Spinprofiles


Welcome to Spinprofiles—your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR. Spinprofiles is a collaborative venture initiated by Spinwatch in collaboration with Lobbywatch, GM Watch Red Star Research and Corporate Watch, but put into effect by a wide variety of volunteers and independent researchers.

Spinprofiles documents the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. Spinprofiles also includes profiles on think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Over time, SourceWatch has broadened to include others involved in public debates including media outlets, journalists and government agencies. Unlike some other wikis, SourceWatch has a policy of strict referencing, and is overseen by an editor and several Associate Portal editors. Spinprofiles has 19,141 articles.


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Propaganda, conflict and war

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Regional conflicts

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Elite Networks and Corporate Power


Industry Sectors

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New pages on Spinprofiles

The twenty most recent pages:

  1. 15:26, 18 August 2008 Magdalen College (52 bytes) . . Tom Griffin (Talk | contribs | block) (Started a page)
  2. 13:34, 18 August 2008 Corporate Council on Africa (7,379 bytes) . . David (Talk | contribs | block)
  3. 12:34, 18 August 2008 Maitland Consultancy (1,309 bytes) . . David (Talk | contribs | block)
  4. 10:55, 18 August 2008 Tag Test (269 bytes) . . Admin (Talk | contribs | block)
  5. 09:54, 18 August 2008 Khaled Duran (1,087 bytes) . . Tom Mills (Talk | contribs | block)
  6. 17:06, 16 August 2008 Gerald Ronson (997 bytes) . . David (Talk | contribs | block)
  7. 16:25, 16 August 2008 RAC (854 bytes) . . Lynn Hill (Talk | contribs | block)
  8. 15:05, 16 August 2008 PAI Partners (788 bytes) . . Lynn Hill (Talk | contribs | block) (new page stub)
  9. 15:00, 16 August 2008 Kwik Fit (475 bytes) . . Lynn Hill (Talk | contribs | block) (new page - stub)
  10. 13:01, 16 August 2008 Motorists Forum (5,467 bytes) . . Lynn Hill (Talk | contribs | block) (new page - work in progress)
  11. 12:28, 16 August 2008 CVC Capital Partners (7,118 bytes) . . Lynn Hill (Talk | contribs | block) (New page)
  12. 07:42, 15 August 2008 Property Alliance (972 bytes) . . David (Talk | contribs | block)
  13. 22:51, 14 August 2008 Peel Holdings (6,657 bytes) . . David (Talk | contribs | block)
  14. 22:32, 14 August 2008 Policy Connect (1,238 bytes) . . David (Talk | contribs | block)
  15. 16:24, 14 August 2008 Randy Scheunemann (842 bytes) . . Paul (Talk | contribs | block) (stub)
  16. 15:02, 14 August 2008 Frank Brenchley (1,658 bytes) . . Tom Mills (Talk | contribs | block)
  17. 14:37, 14 August 2008 Malcolm MacKintosh (1,010 bytes) . . Tom Mills (Talk | contribs | block)
  18. 14:06, 14 August 2008 Fergus Ling (556 bytes) . . Tom Mills (Talk | contribs | block)
  19. 08:00, 14 August 2008 Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (1,982 bytes) . . David (Talk | contribs | block)
  20. 07:42, 14 August 2008 Antonio Martino (2,750 bytes) . . Billy (Talk | contribs | block)

Popular articles over the last week

To see which pages are most read check the list of most popular pages on Spinprofiles. To see the pages which do not exist but are most wanted by Spinprofiles users see the Most Wanted pages. The Priority profiles page lists organisations that Spinprofiles users would like contributors to help with.


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Getting Started

Looking for somewhere to start?

To learn how you can edit any article right now, visit SourceWatch:About, SourceWatch:Welcome, newcomers, our Help page, Frequently Asked Questions, or experiment in the sandbox.

If you are unsure where to start, you could expand some of the recently created but currently very brief articles. (If you look at the recent changes page you will see some noted as being 'stubs' - articles that may just be a line or two and needing to be fleshed out). So if you would like to add to some of those you would be most welcome. Or if you would like some other suggestions closer to your interests you could drop Spinprofiles editor, David Miller an email. His address is editor AT spinprofiles.org

Spinprofiles content

Spinprofiles also includes specific case studies of deceptive PR campaigns, the activities of front groups, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts. We are also building profiles on public relations associations, specific criticisms of PR, common propaganda techniques, war propaganda and more

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Spinprofiles can be made more effective if more people join the project. If you have research or writing skills or just spare time, you can help. Please get in touch.



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SourceWatch history

SourceWatch began as the "Disinfopedia" in February 2003. In January 2005, the name was changed to SourceWatch. Contributors are now working on 19,141 articles. In the last twelve months SourceWatch has served over 113 million pages to users.

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