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| 2025 |
Sportswashing
FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup to be held in the Philippines under President Bongbong Marcos, potentially using sports for political image rehabilitation.
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| 2025 |
Sportswashing
FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship to be held in the Philippines under President Bongbong Marcos
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| 2025 |
Sportswashing
UCI Road World Championships scheduled to be held in Rwanda.
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| 2024 |
Trust
The World Economic Forum again adopted rebuilding of trust as its theme, reinforcing the continued importance of trust in global economic discussions.
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| 2024 |
Sackler Prize
Prize winners demanded that the Sackler Prize be renamed, responding to the ongoing controversy surrounding the Sackler family's reputation.
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| 2024 | A London restaurant was review bombed by a cybercrime group attempting to extort £10,000, causing its Google rating to drop from 4.9 to 2.3 stars. Maximatic Media was hired to identify the source of malicious reviews, worked with Google to remove fake reviews, and restored the restaurant's rating to 4.8 stars. |
| 2024 |
Sportswashing
Esports World Cup tournament series launched in Saudi Arabia, replacing the previous Gamers8 event and continuing the sportswashing strategy.
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| 2024 |
Sportswashing
PFL vs. Bellator mixed martial arts event held in Saudi Arabia.
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| 2024 |
Sportswashing
6 Kings Slam tennis event held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, further establishing the country's presence in international tennis.
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| 2024 |
Sportswashing
World Masters of Snooker tournament to be held in Saudi Arabia
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| 2024 |
Sportswashing
WTA Finals relocated to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, representing a significant international tennis event in the region.
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| February 2024 |
Sportswashing
NBA signed a multiyear global marketing partnership with Emirates Airlines, making them the inaugural title partner of the NBA Cup and the first-ever referee jersey patch partner, drawing criticism from human rights organizations.
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| 2023 | As of this year, there was no uniform method for publicizing blacklists within the Social Credit System. |
| 2023 | Academic Vincent Brussee noted that European misconceptions about China's Social Credit System have become a source of amusement among Chinese Internet users. |
| 2023 | Academic Filip Šebok wrote about the most common myth of the Social Credit System: the belief in a single numerical score recording individuals' behavior. |
| 2023 | Most private social credit initiatives are shut down by the People's Bank of China (PBOC). |
| 2023 |
Sackler Prize
Tel Aviv University removed the Sackler name from the Faculty of Medicine, reflecting growing criticism of the Sackler family's involvement in the opioid epidemic.
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| 2023 |
Sportswashing
Burmese clubs were permitted to play home games in the 2023–24 AFC Cup, despite continued human rights concerns.
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| 2023 |
Sportswashing
Central American and Caribbean Games held in El Salvador
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| 2023 |
Sportswashing
Blast Premier World Finals again held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, reinforcing the pattern of sportswashing in esports.
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| 2023 |
Sportswashing
FIBA Basketball World Cup partially held in the Philippines under President Bongbong Marcos, son of Ferdinand Marcos, continuing a potential pattern of sportswashing.
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| 2023 |
Sportswashing
Gamers8 CS:GO tournament held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, demonstrating another instance of sportswashing through competitive gaming.
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| 2023 |
Sportswashing
The Cricket World Cup was hosted in India, possibly as a means to enhance the country's global reputation and soft power through international sporting events.
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| 2023 |
Sportswashing
Saudia resumed sponsorship of a Formula One team, now backing Aston Martin.
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| 2023 |
Sportswashing
Next Generation ATP Finals begin to be held in Saudi Arabia, continuing until 2027.
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| May 1 2023 |
Content moderation
150 content moderators from Meta, ByteDance, and OpenAI launched the first African Content Moderators Union in Nairobi, Kenya, marking a significant moment in labor organizing for content moderation workers in Africa.
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| 2022 | Academics Diana Fu and Rui Hou published an article 'Rating Citizens with China's Social Credit System', noting the persistent Western misconceptions about the system. |
| 2022 |
Trust and safety
Cinder successfully closed a $14 million funding round.
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| 2022 |
Trust
The World Economic Forum adopted rebuilding of trust as its theme, highlighting the growing global significance of trust in economic and social contexts.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
Haas F1 Team severed ties with Uralkali and Russian driver Nikita Mazepin due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
FIA WTCR Race of Bahrain was held, which is an example of motorsport event potentially used for sportswashing.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
NBA begins hosting pre-season games in United Arab Emirates, indicating the UAE's use of international basketball to enhance its global image.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
LIV Golf Invitational Series was launched, funded by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, representing a major sportswashing effort in professional golf.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
The Saudi Tourism Authority sponsored the FIFA Club World Cup under the Visit Saudi branding.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
Aeroflot's sponsorship of Manchester United was ended following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
Qatar hosts the FIFA World Cup, investing approximately $220 billion in infrastructure and preparations, becoming the smallest country to ever host the World Cup.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
Indonesian motorcycle Grand Prix resumed after a long hiatus, renewing the country's international motorsport engagement.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
Myanmar was allowed to host the AFF Championship despite ongoing human rights concerns following protests and massacres by the Tatmadaw.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
Blast Premier World Finals held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, continuing the trend of sportswashing through international esports events.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
World Aquatics Championships held in Budapest
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
Shell established a major partnership with British Cycling, which is considered an example of corporate sponsorship that could potentially be viewed as sportswashing.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
Gay Games held in Hong Kong, delayed by a year
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
Jakarta ePrix first held, expanding the Formula E race locations.
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| 2022 |
Sportswashing
Gazprom's sponsorship of Schalke 04 and UEFA Champions League was cancelled due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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| November 14 2022 | The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) issued a draft Law on the Establishment of the Social Credit System, which was critically viewed by academics as unsubstantial and merely reiterating existing policies. |
| October 2022 |
Content moderation
Elon Musk acquires Twitter and initiates changes to content moderation policies, weakening previous content rules in an effort to prioritize free speech.
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| October 2022 | A study by professors from Princeton University, Freie Universität Berlin, and Pennsylvania State University finds that the Social Credit System is commonly used to repress protesters, petitioners, journalists, and political activists in Chinese localities. |
| February 2022 | Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) reports that a social credit 'score' is a myth, with no single score determining a citizen's societal status. |
| February 2022 |
Sportswashing
China hosted the Winter Olympics in Beijing, repeating its 2008 strategy of using the international sporting event to improve its global reputation amidst ongoing human rights criticisms.
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