The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has found itself on the receiving end of an elaborate internet hoax.
A group of anti-WTO campaigners have used an internet site purporting to be the WTO's own to issue a statement that the organisation is being disbanded.
The internet site concerned is very cleverly designed to look like the WTO's one. It even uses as its address the name of the WTO's predecessor organisation, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Gatt).
http://www.gatt.org/
A statement on the site says that current trade liberalisation rules have led to increased poverty and inequality and have eroded democratic principles - so the WTO is being disbanded and replaced by a new organisation called the Trade Regulatory Organisation.
The group behind the hoax are called the Yes Men who describe themselves as a network of impostors.
They have impersonated WTO officials on a number of occasions, using satire to make their criticisms. As a result of the bogus website they have received invitations to speak at conferences intended for the WTO's Director General Mike Moore.
source: bbc news
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