Now Mountain Dew Bought Promoted Tweet To Apologize For #Fail 'Racist' Ad [THE BRIEF]

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Earlier this week, Mountain Dew found itself in the middle of a PR disaster after one of its ads, made by rapper Tyler, The Creator was panned for alleged racism and normalizing violence against women. (See the ad and the drama that unfolded here.) Now Mountain Dew has taken to Twitter to buy promoted tweets to apologize again, Adweek reports. The Tweet reads, "Hey guys - made a big mistake we've removed the offensive video from all our channels. #fail" The company also tweeted the message out to its 126K followers. (Tyler, The Creator has 1.6 million fans and doesn't seem too apologetic.)

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