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Greenpeace enlisted the amazing Yes Men as consultants via their thinktank: http://www.yeslab.org/.

A brief glance at their previous work shows that spreading hoaxes via social media seems to be their modus operandi.

And traditional media - their Bhopal apology hoax was done via a TV interview.

you seem to have forgotten the words "fsking amazing" between apology and hoax

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWlvBro9eI

I was trying to stay fairly clinical about it because it's pretty controversial. But yes, I did have a good giggle when I first saw it on The Yes Men Fix the World.

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