In July, I told how a British journalist was being followed around London by “teams of stalkers”. Now Clare Rewcastle Brown believes she is being smeared through the use of fake Twitter accounts.
Some of the accounts have been created by using the identities of people who recently died, reports the Independent, which charts in some detail the dirty tricks campaign against Rewcastle Brown.
Among the false accounts are those attributed to two men who died in 2013: Philip Goodeve-Docker and Samuel Morehead. Their tweets promote links to a Facebook page where Rewcastle Brown is accused of journalistic fabrication.
She is the London-based founder and editor of Sarawak Report, an investigative news website which reports on Malaysian politics and has been responsible for exposing corruption involving tens of millions of pounds.
She is subject to an arrest warrant in Malaysia for “activity detrimental to parliamentary democracy” after revealing that almost $700m from a state fund was paid into the personal bank accounts of prime minister Najib Razak. Officials have said the money came instead from an unnamed Arab donor.
Rewcastle Brown, the sister-in-law of former prime minister Gordon Brown, has not managed to discover who is behind the Twitter and Facebook assault on her credibility.
She also complains that, despite employing lawyers, she has been unable to persuade the social media companies to take down the offending material.
Sources: Sarawak Report/The Independent
