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The British use of Petroleum Online

British Petroleum is accused of hiring Internet trolls to threaten people who are discontent with the way the organization has handled the spill disaster in Gulf of Mexico. Single largest environmental disaster in American history, the oil giant hired PR company Ogilvy & Mather to run a BP US Facebook page.

The Facebook page was supposed to encourage interaction with the oil giant, but after people posted anti-BP comments there, they were attacked, bullied, and even directly threatened which shows their truth. One of the anonymous posters named “Marie” has recently produced boxes of documents and research data that prove the people harassing BP’s critics online were hired by BP or Ogilvy and this all was done intentionly.

That Poster "Marie" has passed collected evidence on to the body investigating the disaster – GAP. Their investigators admitted that the documentation of more serious threats made on the BP page was clear enough to start an investigation of its own. Although all of the threats started on the Facebook page, they later developed offline. They included identifying where somebody lived, an online troll referring to having a shotgun and making use of it.

That poster "Marie" provided the investigating body with files of complaint letters, computer screenshots of the abuse, and a list of FB profiles used by the people who harassed them. It was said that the attacks were racist, sexist, and threatened people with legal action and violence. They have stated that some of the commenters were “child molesters”. Their aim was to get people posting negative comments to quit the social network which is a very common problem these days.

One of those trolls used the nickname “Griffin” and made several allusions to gun violence. For example, he threatened to shoot an environmentalist with his .50 caliber gun. Another troll, known as “Ken Smith”, edited a photo of the company’s critic’s pet bird into the crosshairs of a gunsight. In this way BP is trying to prove themselves true and hiding their reallities from the world. Now it is the responsibility of common people that they take action about it.

Severe effect of oil spill due to carelessness of BP could be easily understand through the following pic. This is destroying beaches, animals, food chains, beauty of nature, water sources, balance of nature.