A new, poor taste LiveLens ad featuring Thamsanqua Jantjie, the sign language interpreter who rose to infamy when he faked his way through Nelsen Mandela’s funeral, has outraged online viewers.
Angered individuals felt that Jantjie's actions poke fun at the method of communication that many people in the deaf and hearing impaired community rely on. On top of having an overall negative rating on YouTube, many Twitter users have photographed their hands with the words "Stop #FakeInterpreter" in order to protest the ad.
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