Australia

This is typical behaviour from Samsung. They've been caught astroturfing.

They basically did human trafficking and forced people to work for them in a foreign country under the guise of an invitation to do journalism, threatening to revoke their hotel and return flights if they didn't do work for Samsung. Nokia got themselves some good PR by offering to pay their way instead.

There's a case with an Australian online tech commentator where Samsung revoked their invitation to a Samsung event—even though the invitation hadn't come from Samsung themselves, but from Telstra or Optus. And they never actually told the telco or the reporter what they had done, so he only found out on the day of the event when the lift he had been told to expect didn't show up. This video link would be an explainer, except that it was taken down.

Oh, and there's that time their phones were blowing up, so they recalled them. Only rather than actually spend the time to ensure everything is safe before re-releasing them, they hurried out without properly fixing anything, and the phones still blew up.

Basically, nobody should be buying anything from Samsung. Ever. They're a terrible company. And you should be highly wary of any journalist, or blogger, or influencer who is saying positive things about them. Even more so than you would be for other companies.