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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done

We don't want to alarm anyone, but there are a lot of terrible people on this planet doing equally terrible things. But don't worry, they're all getting their comeuppance in the best ways imaginable.

Oh wait, what's that? They aren't? At all? Well hey, still nothing better than to start your day by adding one more thing to get blindingly angry about!

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - In 1984, aspirin manufacturer Bayer discovered that one of their blood clotting medicines had been infecting coSource: Eerie Conspiracies Theorists Were Right About All Along

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - CITGO was declared guilty of violating the Clean Air Act in 2007. The billion-dollar company had been exposing Source: DOJ

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - In 2009, Canadian mining company Berrick Gold Corporation supplied shelter and supplies to a local Papua New GuSource: Amnesty International

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - In December of 1984, poisonous gas leaked from a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India, resulting in thSource: The Atlantic

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - The employees of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company — owned at the time by John D. Rockefeller — fought back agSource: American Horror Stories That Didn’t Make It Into Your Textbooks

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - Volkswagen was a relatively new company when World War II broke out. So maybe that’s why they teamed up with thSource: BBC

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - Google’s stated mission may be to provide “unbiased, accurate, and free access to information.” But when ElinorSource: CNN

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - IBM created the “Death Calculator” — an early precursor to the computer — to help Nazis keep track of concentraSource: Jewish Virtual Library

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - For nearly three decades, Texaco ran all oil drilling operations in the Ecuadorian Amazon. In the process, the Source: BBC

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - Sometimes prosecutors have to decide between the lesser of two evils. Do you shut down an institution running aSource: The 5 Most Cartoonishly Evil Banks of All Time

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - It is not legal to sell pesticides containing known carcinogens in the United States. You can, however, manufacSource: Seattle Times

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - Until the ‘20s, halitosis was an obscure, virtually unknown medical term. Listerine appropriated it to sell theSource: 6 Companies That Rigged The Game (And Changed the World)

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - Big Pharma was the original Heisenberg. Pharmaceutical company Temmler Werke designed a product that was meant Source: The Atlantic

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - In 2001, Enron declared bankruptcy suddenly and without notice. This left thousands of employees and investors Source: The 6 Most Downright Evil Things Done By Huge Companies

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - Poor, undernourished women sometimes have difficulty breastfeeding. Enter Nestle. The company sent dedicated nuSource: NY Times

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - How do companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft get away with paying less taxes than you do? By pulling tSource: The Guardian

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - Kobi Alexander, the former CEO of Comverse Technology, was caught swindling $138 million from investors in 2006Source: 7 Wanted Criminals Who Made Mocking Police Into an Art Form

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Evil Things Huge Companies Have Done - Monsanto sells Roundup weed killer, and it also sells crops that are resistant to Roundup. Over time, Roundup-rSource: NY Times

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