Payment to an individual or group of individuals, such as newspaper editors, public or self-appointed consumer protectors, or extra-parliamentary pressure groups (a self-directed organization without public control that endeavors to influence public policy; those groups usually seek to exert influence in a number of ways, including arranging boycotts of products, creating adverse publicity for the business, hidden or public threats [that is to say: terrorisations], holding public demonstrations, and ‘lobbying’ democratically elected representatives and policy-makers) such as Attac, Greenpeace or Robin Hood, above all – in order to prevent their silence with regard to negative statements – for example about faults in their own product – or positive statements – for example, about the good qualities of a competitor’s product – or – to prevent the recipient of the payment from reporting the matter to the authorities. – Often, the payer of hush money is forced to pay by threatening or even initiating adverse publications about the company, the manufactured product or other areas of interest (extortion). – See avanie, begging money, brandy money, bunga bunga premium, money payment gesture, cannibalism effect, phantom risks, bribe money, protection money.
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