Report: Toyota Prepped PR Plan To Discredit Witnesses During Recall

Given the company’s public statements at the time, it’s not surprising that Toyota had developed a PR program to discredit two major witnesses in relation to the automaker’s massive recall earlier this year: Sean Kane, a Massachusetts safety consultant, and David Gilbert, an auto technology professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Gilbert appeared in an ABC News segment that was key in making the “unintended acceleration” issue, and subsequent recalls a national story.

Toyota at the time asked

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