kompromat

plural kompromats · alternative compromat

1. countableuncountableCompromising material, blackmail material, (real or fabricated) evidence that a person does not want revealed, dirt.

   Many observers have commented that, with so many Russian newspapers and TV channels now controlled by oligarchs or powerful organisations, kompromat is now a regular feature in the supposedly independent press.

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   If your car has a bunch of data that's useful to stalkers, it's only because the car manufacturers have turned cars into rolling surveillance platforms that spy on their drivers constantly […] If Big Car is worried that used vehicles are full of nonconsensually collected kompromat, maybe they could, you know, just stop collecting all that data?

   2020 September 3, Cory Doctorow, “Big Car says Right to Repair will MURDER YOU”, in Pluralistic

   This could mean that the most powerful men involved in the scandal are good at intimidating accusers. But it could also mean Epstein really was just following his own perversions, not catering to (or gathering kompromat on) his wealthy friends.

   2025 September 9, Ross Douthat, “Can Trump Deflate the Epstein Birthday-Book Scandal?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC