But individual targets of kompromat are not its only victims, Professor Pearce said. “There’s no reliable truth to rest upon,” Professor Pearce said. Fostering uncertainty and divisionProfessor Pearce said she saw parallels between the use of kompromat overseas and recent news in the United States. Although the Trump dossier purported to be a warning about kompromat elsewhere, she said, it could also be seen as a form of kompromat itself. But in a kompromat society, incriminating material, real and fake, will be manufactured as needed to serve a political purpose.

Source: New York Times January 16, 2017 00:56 UTC