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It took long enough, but Cannes organizers are finally rescinding the Silver Lion in Press awarded to a notorious pedophilia-themed Kia ad, created by Brazilian agency Moma Propaganda, that the automaker has been insisting never ran and was never approved.
The ad in question (see the full image here) promoted Kia's dual-zone air conditioning by featuring cartoon panels of a classroom scene—the left side innocent, the right side raunchy. "A different temperature on each side," reads the headline.
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