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Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media
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Re: Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media
#12Monsanto also pays shills to comment positively about pesticide use and try to brow beat anyone who is has a negative opinion their products. It's crazy how aggressive it is. Basically any thread on Twitter or Reddit the same users will defend Monsanto. You see the same thing about other controversial products, such as BPAs. It seems like some tactic they learned from Big Tobacco and Big Oil to just push as much doub…
What strategy do you think they should use instead to correct people spreading misinformation about their company and products. Being a popular brand to hate is not a good pr image.
What misinformation?
Re: Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media
#13Monsanto also pays shills to comment positively about pesticide use and try to brow beat anyone who is has a negative opinion their products. It's crazy how aggressive it is. Basically any thread on Twitter or Reddit the same users will defend Monsanto. You see the same thing about other controversial products, such as BPAs. It seems like some tactic they learned from Big Tobacco and Big Oil to just push as much doub…
A couple years ago there was a reddit account that did nothing but pop up like clockwork whenever Mons.anto was mentioned. It cited these ghostwritten studies, claiming that they were proof Gl..ypho-sate was safe.
It was so obvious other commenters would poke fun at them and tell other redditors to go look at their comment history.
Re: Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media
#14Monsanto also pays shills to comment positively about pesticide use and try to brow beat anyone who is has a negative opinion their products. It's crazy how aggressive it is. Basically any thread on Twitter or Reddit the same users will defend Monsanto. You see the same thing about other controversial products, such as BPAs. It seems like some tactic they learned from Big Tobacco and Big Oil to just push as much doub…
What strategy do you think they should use instead to correct people spreading misinformation about their company and products. Being a popular brand to hate is not a good pr image.
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Re: Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media
#15Why do people work for companies like this? Have they no compassion for their fellow humans?
I ask the same thing about Facebook and Google employees, and people who work for "defense" contractors.
Google and Facebook sure, but after watching Russia attempt to roll over Ukraine in modern evil explore fashion, I am thankful for defense contractors like those in Turkey who created drones and the software required to smash Russian invasion.
Re: Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media
#16Monsanto also pays shills to comment positively about pesticide use and try to brow beat anyone who is has a negative opinion their products. It's crazy how aggressive it is. Basically any thread on Twitter or Reddit the same users will defend Monsanto. You see the same thing about other controversial products, such as BPAs. It seems like some tactic they learned from Big Tobacco and Big Oil to just push as much doub…
A couple years ago there was a reddit account that did nothing but pop up like clockwork whenever Mons.anto was mentioned. It cited these ghostwritten studies, claiming that they were proof Gl..ypho-sate was safe. It was so obvious other commenters would poke fun at them and tell other redditors to go look at their comment history.
I'm a marketer, and when I see that sort of thing I have to question why nobody on their social team is seeing it be called out (for the crap that it is) and at the very least says "this is not performing well).
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#17Re: Monsanto’s ghostwriting to influence science and media
#18Why do people work for companies like this? Have they no compassion for their fellow humans?
Presumably because they believe in the promise of GMOs.
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#19I think a more effective strategy might be shaming individuals who make up the company. Just start buying internet ads with a persons name and how they wrote reports to try and convince people something that caused cancer didn’t cause cancer.
If this sort of thing was effective (and legal, I don't know) you'd think it would be seen regularly.
I can't decide if it's better explained by the power of corporate(/political) PR or simply that people don't actually care