GM WATCH has a global focus but developed out of the Norfolk Genetic Information Network (NGIN - pronounced 'engine') - a news and research service founded in Norfolk, UK in the spring of 1998 to report on the growing concerns about genetic engineering, also known as genetic modification or GM.

GM WATCH has developed a particular focus on the use of hype, propaganda and spin to promote this technology, and on exposing the role played by corporate-friendly scientists, industry front groups, PR companies, lobbyists, and political groups.

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GM WATCH successes have included the exposure of:

• covert PR campaigns ( Corporate Ghosts )
• manufactured support for GM ( The Fake Parade )
• deceptive PR involving lobby groups (lobbywatch.org)
• bogus accounts of scientific research (Propaganda Lab / False Reports )
• the role of extreme political networks ( Invasion of the Entryists )
• attempts to manipulate the views of children ( Biospinology? )

GM WATCH 's investigative work has prompted many items in the media. Our exposure of a dirty tricks campaign waged by Monsanto and its Internet PR firm against the company's scientific and environmental critics, led to coverage in New Scientist, The Guardian (a series of three articles), and in programmes on BBC TV and radio, as well as other media items around the world.

GM WATCH's investigative work is undertaken by a loose alliance of independent researchers co-ordinated by its founder, Jonathan Matthews.

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Editors: Jonathan Matthews, Claire Robinson

Podcasts: Peter Brown

Translators: Chris Hayes, Sabine Schneider, Steef van Duin, Pieter Cornelissen, Linda Coenen, Dietmar Scholz, Theresa Lankes, Karsten Wolff, Christine Wittstock, Oliver Koch, Janna Völker, Ralph Miller, Sabine Lawson, Ramon de Leeuw

Accounts: Nick Jackson

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GM WATCH 's website and its Biotech Brigade directory have both in the past been grant-assisted by the JMG Foundation.

GM WATCH projects, other than these, have also benefited from JMG Foundation donations and from smaller donations (all less than £3000) from individuals and non-profit groups.

Donors have no editorial control over GM WATCH and, correspondingly, they do not bear any responsibility for what we do.

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