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Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« on: May 01, 2017, 12:06:55 PM »
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Monsanto’s ‘Let Nothing Go’ campaign allegedly hired online ‘shills’ to quickly respond to social media chatter about the carcinogenic properties of their ‘RoundUp’ product.

https://leakofnations.com/monsanto-accused-in-court-of-conducting-an-army-of-shills-to-crackdown-on-negative-online-comments-monsanto-shills-roundup-cancer-link-monsanto-ghostwrite-scientific-articles/

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2017, 03:59:06 PM »
Too little, too late.

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2018, 11:56:59 PM »
Jurors award $289 million to a man they believe got cancer from Monsanto's Roundup

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/10/health/monsanto-johnson-trial-verdict/index.html

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2018, 04:05:42 PM »
Saw that in Le Monde. Big news in Europe.

Then I went and checked CNN, Vox, Fox etc... nary a mention.

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2018, 10:36:22 PM »
Bayer's Monsanto faces 8,000 lawsuits on glyphosate

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bayer-glyphosate-lawsuits/bayers-monsanto-sued-by-8000-plaintiffs-on-glyphosate-idUSKCN1L81J0

Bayer had previously disclosed 5,200 such lawsuits against Monsanto

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2019, 04:44:33 PM »
University of Washington study: Exposure to chemical in Roundup increases risk for cancer by more than 40 percent

https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/02/13/uw-study-exposure-to-chemical-in-roundup-increases-risk-for-cancer/

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2019, 05:43:56 PM »
Ah... is this the next mesothelioma?

Start your SEO engines. The class action suit could get big.

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #7 on: March 19, 2019, 04:24:09 PM »
>the next mesothelioma

Just rec'd my first spam "RoundUp Injury Lawsuit: You May Qualify!!"

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2019, 02:11:40 AM »
Ka-ching!

Monsanto Ordered to Pay $80 Million in Roundup Cancer Case - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/us/monstanto-roundup-california-verdict.html

That's 2 cases now being appealed.

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2019, 04:11:34 PM »
Bayer, evil arseholes.
Civilisation is a race between disaster and education ...

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2019, 04:29:15 PM »

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #12 on: February 27, 2021, 03:15:43 PM »
Gotcha!

Bayer posts €10.5 billion loss after Roundup legal woes
https://www.dw.com/en/bayer-posts-105-billion-loss-after-roundup-legal-woes/a-56685200

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2021, 12:19:52 AM »
Bayer to Pull Glyphosate Products, Including Roundup, From U.S. Home and Garden Market
https://www.ecowatch.com/bayer-ending-glyphosate-sales-us-market-2654298339.html

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Re: Monsanto shills program to parry negative online comments
« Reply #14 on: August 03, 2021, 01:42:46 AM »
Wow. I think they've already lost Europe for the most part.

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More than 90 percent of recent claims come from the residential home and garden market, AgWeb reported.

I've got to believe that 90 percent of the illness is among farm workers.