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BP Hired Company To Troll Users Who Left Critical Comments
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. ... BP's '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."
Where do i get a gig like this?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
They should have hired Dice.com. I hear they have great information on technology and technology jobs. A++++. Would use their site again.
Or do the oil companies pay extra?
Please do not read this sig. Thank you.
How much did you get paid to make this post?!?
An anonymous source working for Anonymous claims the group is not worried as the emerging trolls are "newfags [who] can't triforce". Some experts, however, are not as confident on the group's ability to adapt to the increasingly competitive trolling market. Anonymous has yet to comment on the matter.
I just want to say that, though I often attack, bully, and sometimes insult people on this very forum, I'm not a paid shill.
It's more of a "calling".
(Wait... what? I can also get *paid*?)
BP used the "xzvf" switches.
Bark less. Wag more.
They should have spent it on coming up with more ways of saying "We're sorry".
Being a multi-billion dollar megacorp means never having to say you're sorry.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Just wait until the usual slashdot crowd realizes how many ACs are upmodded in this thread compared to the shills upvoting themselves with dummy accounts in every other, drowning out worthwhile signals in a sea of noise.
Oh, and although it is somewhat childish, let me say this:
inb4 AC bashing
You don't really think the surveillance state would not decry anonymity at every turn do you?