How to handle aff programs meddling with your content?

How to handle it depends on your relationship with the affiliate group.

We review over a dozen sportsbooks, casinos and poker rooms, and we have specific “what we like” and “what we DONT like” sections in our reviews.
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But we’ve been approached by literally 100’s of programs over the last 5 years – and only the ones that we’ve passed have even made it onto the site – so the good always outweighs the bad.

Even so – I’ve had several discussions after posting the reviews because as you say peole don’t like to read even slightly negative press – and in some cases contacted the affiliate group directly to tell them what we were going to say.

However, we always reserve the right to editorial control on OUR sites at the start of any agreement.
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If you’re new, small, or have no relationship at all with them then it is very hard to stand up to this sort of “request” … and you need to start building that relationship.

You could tell them directly that the issue you’ve raised (I assume in some sort of review) is a very REAL issue and rather than putting pressure on you to remove the item in question you would rather that THEY fixed the issue.
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But I’d take a look at your “satirical pun, and a slight jab” and detemine whether it’s appropriate first. You don’t have to be a PR parrot – but make sure that what you’re saying cannot be taken the worng way.

Hope that helps.