D'Agata starts with the casual assurance that the article doesn't need to be fact-checked, but the process is standard at most magazines, and it remains a fundamental, if hidden, support for their credibility.
They cannot continue to hide their support for a repressive regime behind arguments of African solidarity".
Egyptian chocolate-maker Bahira Galal does not hide her support for Egypt's army chief, General Abdel Fatah el-Sisi.
In the run-up to the referendum on European Union membership last year, I never hid my support for Brexit.
"We have never hidden our support for the people of Lebanon, Palestine, or Iraq.... We do it with pride, as an act of humanity.
The UK has never hidden its support for the UN resolution, voting for its terms, and subsequently both UK ministers and diplomats have publicly justified its wording.
The mullahs of Iran and the Islamic regime led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have done little to hide their support for Iraq's Shia majority.
Michael Eisenstadt, the director of military studies at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Iran has little reason to hide its support for groups attacking Americans in Iraq.
Upon discovering I was a Manchester United supporter, he often got me tickets for matches when United were playing QPR at Loftus Road – though I had to hide my support for the Reds, for my own protection as much as for the sake of his reputation.
Trump also doesn't try to hide his support for Social Security and Medicare, or pretend he'd push for massive cuts of two of the most popular social welfare programs that have ever existed, unlike almost all of his fellow Republicans.
