Oil company spent £800,000 on social media influence ads after Labour proposed windfall tax
BP has spent more than £800,000 on social media influence ads in the UK this year that champion the company’s investments in green energy, it can be revealed.
On Tuesday, BP announced a 14-year high profit of £7bn for the second quarter of this year. In the previous eight days, the company paid about £570,000 to Facebook and Instagram for influence ads that reached tens of millions of viewers in the UK.
(SOURCE) https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/06/bp-social-media-influence-ads-labour-windfall-tax