Reputational Contagion

When one entity's reputation crisis spreads to adjacent brands, executives, board members, sponsors, or business partners through proximity rather than direct involvement. The AI-engine era accelerated contagion by retrieving cross-entity associations in synthesized answers — a brand sponsored by a disgraced figure now retrieves the figure's controversy as part of its own entity description for months or years afterward.

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