According to a legal letter, obtained by The Blast, James Franco is asking that his deposition and any answers he gives about the ongoing case be sealed. Franco is asking that not only is the information kept private, but the fact that he is sitting for a deposition at all be kept from the public.
Franco’s attorney sent a letter to Johnny Depp’s team saying that prior to him agreeing to appear for his deposition, he wants a document put in place to protect any information he provides during questioning.
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, according to an investigation by The Guardian. Perhaps most troubling: the company reportedly paid Google to promote search results that questioned Gillam’s findings — a disturbing look into how readily the flow of online information can be manipulated.
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.”
Google “When Did Kobe Bryant Die” And It Lists Day Of Deadly Crash As “Assassination”
UPDATE: The Google search for “When did Kobe Bryant die” no longer lists Jan. 26 as “date of assassination.” It now says “date of death.”
A Google search for “When did Kobe Bryant die” on Sunday night, listed Jan. 26 as the former NBA star’s “date of assassination” rather than “date of death.”
The result, which mentions the “date of assassination” is for a Wikipedia page about Bryant’s life and career. The word “assassination” did not appear on the Wikipedia page, which does have a note that it is “being heavily edited because its subject has recently died.”
Bryant died Sunday in helicopter crash near Malibu that killed nine people.
“Knowledge about the circumstances of the death and surrounding events may change rapidly as more facts come to light. Initial news reports may be unreliable, and the last updates to this article may not reflect the most current information,” the Wikipedia page noted.
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Google and Wikipedia could not immediately be reached for comment.
A Google search for “when did George H.W. Bush die” lists the day the 41st president died as “Date of death.”
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Great event with President Clinton and @KVBFF for renovation of Step Up on Vine!
Clinton and Bryant will discuss the balance of organized sports and recreational play. AP Photos
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