Verizon Ad Appears Next To Story About Death By Exploding Cellphone

This ad for Verizon cellphones is placed right next to an AP story about a South Korean man who may or may not have been killed by a cellphone exploding in his shirt pocket. Someone should invent a fancy technology that excludes advertisers from appearing next to articles when the name of their core product appears in editorial proximity with “death” or “exploding.”

Can You Hear Me Dying Now? [Copyranter]

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