“The article contained: facts. The CSR meeting. The IIC lunch. The engagement timeline. The merger announcement. The facts were: arranged — not falsified, but: arranged — in a sequence that made the: marriage look transactional. Which it: partially was. Which was: the problem. The truth was: complicated — the marriage was both: arranged and chosen, both: strategic and genuine, both: a merger and a love story. But gossip didn't do: complicated. Gossip did: simple. And the simple version was: damning.”