[6] On May 13, 2012, The Costa Rica Star reported on the arrest of Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, by German law enforcement officials in Frankfurt.
On this matter, The Costa Rica Star also published press communications written by Paul Watson for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, as well as an official response from the International Whale Protection Organization.
The Costa Rica Star claimed that the publication was part of a social experiment to illustrate the dangers of misinformation;[12] one reader who was not amused organized a petition to boycott advertising on the site.
[19] On April 16, 2016, The Costa Rica Star heeded a request by Canadian news media outlets to look into the assets owned by Brian Pallister, a conservative politician and the Leader of the Opposition of the Manitoba Legislative Assembly at the time.
The investigation revealed that Pallister was president of a Finca Deneter Doce, Sociedad Anónima, a holding company for three pieces of real estate in the highly sought-after coastal district of Tamarindo, in the northwestern province of Guanacaste.