Facebook Advertising Gone Bad

An over the top ad campaign for the upcoming Universal Pictures produced “Untraceable” has been removed from Facebook after concerns were expressed about excessive violent content. I’m fortunate not to have seen the content because it sounds pretty gruesome. According to the Guardian, the agency had launched a Facebook page called “Kill With Me”. The more people that joined the page, the more gruesome the content.

The page included the following text: “”This guy is going to die.

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