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Corporate Corruption
Monsanto and Google
Damage Control ... Monsanto, the agrochemical company reportedly worked overtime to discredit investigative journalists criticizing the company — and even paid the search giant Google to suppress the findings.
Peter Burgess
Coordinated Effort
As Gillam prepared to publish her 2017 book, “Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science,” Monsanto went into overdrive, The Guardian reports. The company assembled a spreadsheet of 23 specific steps it would take to downplay Gillam’s key finding while promoting content claiming its chemicals were actually safe.
The spreadsheet shows how Monsanto planned to launch a new website full of their talking points and pay to make sure it popped up when people googled Gillam’s name.
“I’ve always known that Monsanto didn’t like my work… and worked to pressure editors and silence me,” Gillam told the Guardian. “But I never imagined a multi-billion dollar company would actually spend so much time and energy and personnel on me. It’s astonishing.”
READ MORE: Revealed: how Monsanto’s ‘intelligence center’ targeted journalists and activists [The Guardian]
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Zoe CohenStatus is reachable Zoe Cohen • 1st Master Coach, Coach Supervisor, Carbon Literate Coach, Manchester Lead at Women in Sustainability, XR, Vegan 21h great and important post Jasmine A. #roundup #Monsanto #glyphosate Jasmine A. Lomax, LEED GA, CGP Jasmine A. Lomax, LEED GA, CGP • 1st Sustainability Manager | USGBC-LA Board of Directors Member | LEED Green Associate 22h • Edited 'Monsanto, the agrochemical company that’s attained notoriety for its agricultural pesticides and genetically modified organisms, reportedly worked overtime to discredit investigative journalists criticizing the company — and even paid the search giant Google to suppress the findings.' 'Carey Gillam, a journalist with Reuters, was reporting on the health effects of Monsanto’s products a few years back. As part of a massive damage-control campaign, the company worked to discredit her work as much as possible. Perhaps most troubling: the company reportedly paid Google to promote search results that questioned carey gillam’s findings — a disturbing look into how readily the flow of online information can be manipulated.' 'As Gillam prepared to publish her 2017 book, “Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science,” Monsanto went into overdrive. The company assembled a spreadsheet of 23 specific steps it would take to downplay Gillam’s key finding while promoting content claiming its chemicals were actually safe.' #News #SocialMedia #Pesticides #GMO #Roundup #Sustainability #Monsanto #Science #Health #Ethics #Glyphosate No alt text provided for this image Report: Monsanto paid Google to bury unfavorable news futurism.com 39 8 Comments Like Comment Share Top Comments Peter Burgess Add a comment… Images now Peter BurgessStatus is online Peter Burgess You Founder/CEO at TrueValueMetrics.org developing True Value Impact Accounting My first thought after reading this was simply that people that behave like this in the corporate world must serve substantial prison terms ... simply having the company pay fines, even in the simply comes out of the corporate petty cash. My second thought is that the fines should be big enough to put the existing corporate entity out of business ... think Johns Manville and Asbestos. …see more 21h Dalibor Musil Dalibor Musil IT specialist | SQA/Test specialist | Business analyst | IT service management consultant | Linux enthusiast That is not shocking enough. In the Czech Republic, The major manufacturer of those chemicals for agriculture is the biggest processor of biofuel products and by the way a Prime minister and owner of biggest publishing company controlling main journals. So there is no criticism ever possible. So, yes, it could be worse, you are still lucky, that this can show up. Like Dalibor Musil’s comment · 3 Likes 3 Likes on Dalibor Musil’s comment 1h C. J. Azzara C. J. Azzara 2nd degree connection2nd Author at self-employeed So more boycotts needed? I grow weary of all the corporate greed and a government that gives them license to kill us for profit. Let's take the fight directly to Monsanto and to our political system at the ballet box! Like C. J. Azzara’s comment · 1 Like 1 Like on C. J. Azzara’s comment 20h John Rees John Rees 2nd degree connection2nd Business Builder, Communications Expert and Mentor. Should we be surprised? Capitalism is broken and profit is all, despite what the corporates say. The only way to effect real and sustainable change is to have different measures of performance, but that still seems to be a pipe dream. Like John Rees’ comment · 6 Likes 6 Likes on John Rees’ comment 44m Aldo Grech Aldo Grech 2nd degree connection2nd Feminist | Inventor | Speaker | Coach Zoe, Google and Facebook are seriously demanding more government oversight of their criminal behavior. I usually disagree with government oversight. But these organizations are currently literally getting away with murder. And all for greed. Like Aldo Grech’s comment 5h lennart nilsfors lennart nilsfors 2nd degree connection2nd consultant in veterinary diagnostic ultrasonography and cardiology, DVM at lennart nilsfors veterinär ab Sais as much about Google as about Monsanto -both more interested in money than facts. Easy to spread rumours, miscredit people and cover the truth with smokescreens in these digital times. Like lennart nilsfors’ comment 21h Michael Rada Michael Rada 2nd degree connection2nd H U M A N https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/enough-time-wasted-already-michael-rada/ Like Michael Rada’s comment 20h Mike Rigby Mike Rigby 2nd degree connection2nd CEO, MRA Marketing Bayer Crop Science Like Mike Rigby’s comment