Unilever's Dove apologizes after ‘racist' soap advertisement

Dove, the soap brand owned by Anglo-Dutch consumer-goods giant Unilever, apologized after a social media advertisement that some viewers described as racist

Thomas Buckley
Updated9 Oct 2017, 07:08 PM IST
The ad, posted on Dove’s US Facebook page, showed a black woman lifting her T-shirt to reveal a similarly clad white woman, who in turn transformed into an Asian woman. Photo: Bloomberg
The ad, posted on Dove's US Facebook page, showed a black woman lifting her T-shirt to reveal a similarly clad white woman, who in turn transformed into an Asian woman. Photo: Bloomberg(Bloomberg)

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