Peeps have sent me this link with the following headline a few times:
"WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Market For Africa"
Its a HOAX
This is the link:
http://www.gatt.org/
Click on headline and you get this (click to enlarge). The presenter infiltrated a panel at Wharton and gave a fake presentation. You can read the details here:
• If you follow the links and look at the images on the website its clearly meant to be a parody.
• The website is a clever clone of the official WTO website (WTO replaced GATT in 1995):
WTO
http://www.wto.org/
• Wharton is business school but they ain't into slave markets--at least not formal ones.
• The pranksters go by the name "Yes Men." They are anti-corporate activists who use parody to highlight their cause. See the following links:
Yes Men Official Website:
http://theyesmen.org/
Yes Men on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/c
tags: hoax wto gatt wharton slavery
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