Tag: Yes Men

  • Yes Men hoax uses Twitter, Facebook to put Big Coal on the defensive

    Peabody, which launched a “Coal Cares” website to advertise the campaign, hoped to tackle the stigma associated with asthma by giving away a variety of colorful and hip inhalers to dignify the use of asthma medication. “For kids who have no choice but to use an inhaler,” the website reads, “Coal Cares lets them inhale…

  • WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa

    WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa

    Yes Men: Philadelphia – At a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa, World Trade Organization representative Hanniford Schmidt announced the creation of a WTO initiative for “full private stewardry of labor” for the parts of Africa that have been hardest hit by the 500 years of Africa’s free trade with the West. The…

  • The Halliburton SurvivaBall™

    The Halliburton SurvivaBall™

    Yes Men, from the fake site Halliburton Contracts: Halliburton’s reputation as a disaster and conflict industry innovator will be cemented by the SurvivaBall™, a one-size-fits-all solution to global warming. Here.

  • UK Serious Games Conference Pranked by Anti-McDonalds Activists

    UK Serious Games Conference Pranked by Anti-McDonalds Activists

    The Yes Men strike again! From Gamasutra, via boing-boing: According to online reports, the UK-based International Serious Games Event, which deals with games for educational, corporate training, and other uses, this week hosted its conference in Birmingham, England, complete with a session by Andrew Shimery-Wolf, Strategic Comm. Mgr at fast food giant McDonald’s, on “McChange:…