From Converse to Ed Sheeran, Let’s End These Tedious Apology Tours

Step back from the heat for a second. Nobody seriously thought, for even a moment, that a Korean photographer shooting a Korean pop star for the Korean market was evoking the Klan.

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Chase Brings Back Drew Barrymore For a Scream Spoof Ahead of Movie’s 30th Anniversary

Chase marks Scream's anniversary with a comedic spoof bringing back original star Drew Barrymore.

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Brands Keep Greenlighting Ads That Many Find Racially Insensitive

Friday’s uproar over Converse’s ad that some likened to Ku Klux Klan iconography followed what’s become a standard pattern: the hasty apology, the takedown, and the promise of remediation. “We […]

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Converse apologizes and pulls ad that critics said evoked racist imagery

Sneaker company removes social media ad after backlash from critics who said it resembled KKK imagery The sneaker company Converse has removed a social media ad that sparked outrage among critics who viewed it as evoking the Ku Klux Klan and lynching. The Instagram ad photo showed K-pop singer Karina wearing a skirt and holding [...]

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Ad Tech Has A Multibillion-Dollar Privacy Problem. It Started Decades Ago

The biggest privacy risk facing ad tech isn’t whatever state privacy law passed last month; it’s the ones that passed decades ago. The Video Privacy Protection Act was written to protect VHS renters in 1988. Another, the California Invasion of Privacy Act, was enacted in 1967 to stop illegal wiretapping, about which there was a [...]

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