The Public Investment Fund, represented by its governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan, participated in meetings hosted by President Trump aimed at brokering a deal between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf. PIF’s reported $1.5 billion investment bid in PGA Tour Enterprises was ultimately rejected, highlighting the fund’s use of state financial power to influence American sports institutions amid close ties with far‐right political figures.

The Public Investment Fund-sponsored Future Investment Initiative Institute Priority Summit in Miami is criticized for whitewashing Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses. The event serves to obscure the Crown Prince's authoritarian practices and the state’s systemic violations, using soft power and high-profile sponsorship to legitimize a repressive regime.

A Human Rights Watch report accuses Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund of facilitating and benefiting from human rights abuses, including forced evictions, migrant worker exploitation, and whitewashing authoritarian policies under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

A recent HRW report accuses the Public Investment Fund of engaging in corrupt, politically motivated expropriations and discriminatory practices, including the forced displacement of indigenous communities and suppressing dissent through non-disparagement clauses. These practices highlight deep concerns over the fund's complicity with authoritarian measures.

A Human Rights Watch report reveals that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) has been used as a tool to facilitate and benefit from serious human rights violations, including forced evictions and the suppression of dissent, ultimately bolstering authoritarian control under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

A subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Alat, has entered a $200 million joint venture with Dahua Technology, a blacklisted Chinese surveillance firm, to manufacture surveillance hardware in Saudi Arabia. This deal raises concerns about the provision of repressive technologies that can bolster authoritarian surveillance practices.

A subsidiary of the Public Investment Fund (PIF) has entered a $200 million joint venture with Chinese surveillance technology firm Dahua Technology to manufacture surveillance hardware in Saudi Arabia. This deal is controversial given Dahua's involvement in repressive technology and its U.S. sanctions over human rights concerns, notably relating to the treatment of the Uighur minority.

A subsidiary of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has announced a $200 million partnership with Dahua Technology, a major Chinese surveillance equipment maker previously sanctioned by the U.S. This collaboration to manufacture surveillance hardware in Saudi Arabia raises concerns about enabling repressive technologies that can fuel authoritarian practices.