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Racist adverts: It didn't start with Volkswagen

The saying that bad publicity is good publicity may WORK for brands, but what if the bad publicity is racist?

Recently, social media was all the rage when German car manufacturer Volkswagen posted a racist video promoting its new Golf 8 on its official Instagram page.

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