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I think that (c) would be the best choice here. After all, recruiters simply facilitate a transaction between a company and a candidate. Whether or not they directly receive their paychecks from a specific company and their compensation structure, etc. is an implementation detail that is always subject to change.

I see lots of people (including some commenters in threads on this article) offering the excuse "Well, you see, recruiters behave badly because the incentives set up by Acme, Inc. are such that behaving badly gets them paid the most per year".

Hence, naming (and potentially, shaming) Acme, Inc. is the right thing to do here.