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In the US, Coca-Cola pulls #MakeItHappy after Hitler prank

A quote from “Mein Kampf” is concealed in this image.

Autotweet attack: the campaign Coca-Cola launched at the Super Bowl was used to quote ‘Mein Kampf’.

To paraphrase Godwin’s law: If you tweet something widely enough, sooner or later it will be associated with Hitler or Nazis.

That’s the lesson Coca-Cola learned when it suspended its #MakeItHappy campaign after a prank used Coke’s autotweet function to quote lines from “Mein Kampf.”

#MakeItHappy, launched at the Super Bowl, featured a Twitter campaign that invited users to mark negative tweets with the hashtag #MakeItHappy. Coca-Cola automatically

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