BP Hired Company To Troll Users Who Left Critical Comments ift.tt/I0dW8l An anonymous reader sends this news from Al-Jazeera: BP has been accused of hiring internet trolls to purposefully attack, harass, and sometimes threaten people who have been critical of how the oil giant has handled its disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil firm hired the international PR company Ogilvy & Mather to run the BP America Facebook page during the oil disaster, which released at least 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf in what is to date the single largest environmental disaster in U.S. history. The page was meant to encourage interaction with BP, but when people posted comments that were critical of how BP was handling the crisis, they were often attacked, bullied, and sometimes directly threatened. ... BPs astroturfing efforts and use of trolls have been reported as pursuing users personal information, then tracking and posting IP addresses of users, contacting their employers, threatening to contact family members, and using photos of critics family members to create false Facebook profiles, and even threatening to affect the potential outcome of individual compensation claims against BP. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:56:25 +0000
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