Throwaway.

My company is situated in a "power entanglement" between media, politics and powerful companies. We aren't very big. People know we're there, a lot of people know what we explicitly do, but they do not pay us much mind because they're mostly busy with themselves and the other big fish.

Let's say this someone is in the same country as me; that's pretty essential. Now, how much I could fuck up someone's life depends entirely on how important they are. If they're just an average joe, I can't really do much to them. If they're rich and/or famous and/or powerful, however, chances are I could trip them up quite a bit if A) I really tried, and B) I had help from a few colleagues and contacts.

The thing is, when you're a company that 'moves' and manages information like we do, there's the kind of information you'd expect us to have, and then there's straight up muck. These 'dirty' archives are entirely unethical, of course, and large amounts of it are memorized rather than written down in digital or physical copies so as to not expose us. Some of it is information we have in our personal 'archives', some are in company archives.

Now, in the world of rumours, there are those that are on the surface (I.e. they are being written about), and then there are those that kind of just swim around the ether, under the surface. A few people in a few social circles have heard of them, but even fewer of them know. It is a general understanding that to keep up the status quo of being high and important, they do not shit-talk their fellow high and importants. Sometimes, a situation that have been ongoing for a while or an old skeleton comes up to the surface and fucks shit up for the person(s) in question. These kind of things do not surface by accident.

So yes, if you're a person the media would want to write about and you have a dirty secret or two, I/we may be able to make you sweat. But that's about it really.