Monsanto operated a “fusion center” to monitor and discredit journalists and activists who opposed it, even working with Google and targeted a reporter who wrote a critical book on the company.

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Well there's been a lot of cases involving the products of Monsanto not being safe and all that. I think this article touches how it seeks to manipulate its public image by working with PR firms and such.

The article talks about the way Bayer/Monsanto seeking to manipulate information by working with other companies like google and PR firms in order to intimidate journalists that try to oppose it.

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And our German Bayer executive idiots were dumb enough to buy this company with a standardized "synergy effects" argumentation chain.

I always thought that studying "business" is quite worthless and this one again is fine corroboration for this thesis.