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Samsung apologizes for its ‘tone deaf’ commercial
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Samsung apologizes for its ‘tone deaf’ commercial

Recently, Samsung apologizes for an ad showing a woman getting up at 02:00 to go for a run through a city alone. As part of its Samsung Galaxy Night Owls campaign. The technology firm released an advertisement showing a woman running alone in a city alone at 2 am. As a way to highlight the company's fitness bands and app. There has been criticism for the ad from women's running groups and safety activists for not being realistic.". In a recent interview, Samsung told Radio 1 Newsbeat that it never intended to "be insensitive to ongoing conversations about women's safety." According to a UK radio station, samsung apologizes for not being "sensitive to ongoing conversations about women's safety."  Ashling Murphy In January, Ashling Murphy, who was killed while out for...