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BP fakes another oil spill photo, this time of ‘top kill’ exercise

It’s starting to look like Capricorn One over at BP. In addition to a photo of the oil spill crisis command center that BP faked on their Web site, an astute reader found yet another photo of the crisis response that has been faked by BP. This one is of the “top kill” effort to stop the spill a month or so ago. Above and below are parts of the photo that show that BP, yet again, inserted a fake screen behind its employees to make them look busier, or something.

Here’s the photo in full:

How many other crisis response photos from BP have been faked? Did they fake any videos?
John Aravosis
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