South African journalist-filmmakers Richard Poplak and Diana Neille take a deep dive into the nefarious doings of PR firm Bell Pottinger and its disgraced spin-doctor co-founder Tim Bell in the Sundance2020 premiere, 'Influence'
There's a notion that crops up a lot on left-wing social media and the political-journalistic blogosphere, especially in relation to stories about the black arts of manipulating public opinion online — Cambridge Analytica, Cyprian offshore banks, Panama Papers, WikiLeaks, Brexit or the fetid nexus of oligarchs and corrupt regimes, and so on: it's all one big story.
, where co-director Poplak is editor-at-large, Bell Pottinger filed for bankruptcy as a result of its role in unethically and illegally stoking racial unrest in South Africa in order to benefit the influential Gupta family, backers of S.A.'s then-president Jacob Zuma, who resigned in 2018.bravely tries to lay out what the whole Gupta-Zuma-Bell Pottinger story was about. But that's a gnarly task given the sweaty knot of connections, names and figures attached to the story.
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