Update to: Spoof Gets Real

I just confirmed the source of this morning's spoof press release, which has allowed fiction to stir up non-fiction (www.enviro-canada.ca/agenda2020).

The project is trademark Yes Men.

It also turns out that the Wall Street Journal Europe article was also a spoof, complete with non-related links that checked out as well. The url was http://online.europe-wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704201404574590453176996032.html whereas the real WSJ Europe page is http://europe.wsj.com/.

It turns out that there were several other spoof pages including the UN Cop page and the Uganda press release.

The Yes Men are a sophisticated group of culture jamming activists, who Wikipedia describes as practicing “identity correction” by pretending to be powerful people and spokespersons for prominent organizations. From their offices in Milwaukee, they create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they want to spoof, and then they accept invitations received on their websites to appear at conferences, symposia, and TV shows.

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What happened to the earlier assertion that the "main source" for the spoof was the Canadian Youth Delegation?

Yes Men are linked to RTMark.com, which is the registrant of the enviro-canada.ca site.