These overseas partners target the klept in the places they go to play and spend, spoiling their fun - and if they succeed in getting corrupt leaders censured abroad, then in-country activists can leverage that bad press to fight the klept at home.

To fight this "#BoomerangEffect," TUSNs seek to burnish corrupt officials' reputations abroad, getting their names on humanitarian prizes, beloved sports teams, cultural institutions and great universities.

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New developments in the #BoomerangEffect

“Facial recognition is helping Putin curb dissent with the aid of U.S. tech”
Lena Masri, #Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-russia-detentions/

How facial recognition is helping Putin curb dissent

A Reuters review of more than 2,000 court cases shows how Russia uses facial recognition to identify and sweep up the Kremlin's opponents.

Reuters