Just as the Palico Research Commission decided to head for the Mobile Island, which might have been Gild Tesoro's golden ship or Shiki's Flying Sky Island, today's newspapers caused an uproar elsewhere in the world.
Thanks to Xie Wen's consistently good name and the Palicoes' adorable appearance, the Palico Research Commission had always enjoyed an excellent reputation among ordinary people. With the World Economy News Paper's reporting there for comparison, almost no one-or, more precisely, absolutely no one-believed the contents of the Official Newspaper.
The World Government clearly understood that its own reporting lacked credibility, so in several later articles that Xie Wen had not read, it exposed some of his past "crimes."
These included ambushing and killing Bekori, the former king of the Sorbet Kingdom, harboring the wanted criminal Nico Robin, and having dealings with two of the Four Emperors, Big Mom and Whitebeard.
Apparently feeling that these charges still lacked weight, the official reports also pinned some other people's crimes on Xie Wen, striving to portray him as someone who appeared righteous on the surface but was actually guilty of heinous crimes.
It was only because Morgans's World Economy News Paper had already exposed everything about Doflamingo that the World Government had not gone ahead with renaming the "Sapphire Star" the "Heavenly Yaksha."
To lend these accusations more credibility, the reports even dragged several other Shichibukai into the mud...
For instance, Cavendish's identity as the "Weasel Scythe of Rumbar," Gecko Moria's habit of digging up graves, and so on.
Then there were Crocodile, who had once tried to steal a kingdom, and the Heavenly Yaksha, who had already succeeded...
To deal with Xie Wen, the World Government was even willing to drag down the reputation of the Shichibukai as a whole.
It was only because they genuinely could