How do hedge funds short companies?

How do hedge funds short companies? Short selling is actually a way to short individual stocks. Hedge funds borrow shares from brokers and then go to the secondary market to realize them. After the short selling agreement expires, if the stock really falls, then the hedge fund will spend money to buy back the stock and return it to the broker, so the difference between the two is his profit. Of course, there are also more professional hedge funds, such as Muddy Water. When it wants to short a stock or a company, it will fully study the fundamentals of listed companies. If this stock does have fundamental problems, it will borrow shares in the market in advance, and then publicly put the short-selling report on the market, which will cause panic among shareholders who hold this stock, thus selling this stock one after another, and its share price will fall rapidly. In this way, its profit will be maximized.