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 “I know how this information looks—when taken out of context, it seems bad,” Exxon CEO Darren Woods said in response to the Wall Street Journal’s inquiry about the documents that show Exxon executives strategized over how to diminish concerns about warming temperatures, and they sought to muddle scientific findings that might hurt its oil-and-gas business.

Lol. In what context does this look good?

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/exxon-climate-change-documents-e2e9e6af 
 @8606bdb4 In the context of a long prison sentence 
 @8606bdb4 it does look bad 
 @8606bdb4 From the article: "Exxon is now a defendant in dozens of lawsuits around the US that accuse it and other oil companies of deception over climate change and that aim to collect billions of dollars in damages.”  // Like Hawaii’s Maui County! 
 @8606bdb4 perhaps in context the rest of the context is worse