Editing Bhopal disaster (section)

===Settlement fund hoax===
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On 3 December 2004, the twentieth anniversary of the disaster, a man falsely claiming to be a Dow representative named Jude Finisterra was interviewed on [[BBC World News]]. He claimed that the company had agreed to clean up the site and compensate those harmed in the accident, by liquidating Union Carbide for {{Nowrap|US$12 billion}}.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dow Does The Right Thing|url=http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/bbcbhopal |website=The Yes Men|access-date=30 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923175638/http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/bbcbhopal|archive-date=23 September 2012}}</ref><ref name="Dow The Yes Men">{{cite web |title=Dow|website=The Yes Men |url=http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/dow|access-date=30 August 2012 |archive-date=10 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120810225225/http://theyesmen.org/hijinks/dow}}</ref> Dow quickly issued a statement saying that they had no employee by that name—that he was an impostor, not affiliated with Dow, and that his claims were a hoax. The BBC later broadcast a correction and an apology.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.znetwork.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=66&ItemID=6795 |archive-date=16 December 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041216065428/http://www.znetwork.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=66&ItemID=6795 |title=Corporate Responsibility|date=5 December 2004|publisher=znetwork.org|access-date=28 August 2012}}</ref>

Jude Finisterra was actually [[Jacques Servin|Andy Bichlbaum]], a member of the activist prankster group [[The Yes Men]]. In 2002, The Yes Men issued a fake press release explaining why Dow refused to take responsibility for the disaster and started up a website, at "DowEthics.com", designed to look like the real Dow website, but containing false information.<ref name="Dow The Yes Men"/>