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11th Sep 2013

PICTURE: Telecommunications Company Use 9/11 To Insensitively Promote New Mobile Phone

The company have issued an apology after Twitter backlash.

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The twelfth anniversary of the September 11th attacks on America occurs today.

Earlier we posted an advertisement that appeared in a Wisconsin newspaper that readers found hugely offensive, and now there is another to join it. 

This tweet was posted onto telecommunications company,  AT&T ‘s, official Twitter account, insensitively using the anniversary to promote a new mobile phone.

The tweet remained up for about an hour before being deleted, the company the issued an apology to anyone that it had offended. 

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