9/11 terrorist appears on driving license ad on Facebook - Polidicks

I saw this on LMAO pics a few days back, and wanted the full story, so here it is. [URL]http://gizmodo.com/5887984/a-911-terrorist-was-used-in-a-facebook-ad[/URL] [release][B]A 9/11 Terrorist Was Used in a Facebook Ad[/B] That's an ad for car insurance that popped up on Facebook the other day. See anything wrong with it? It's okay, I didn't notice it at first either but the photo in the ad isn't a random drivers license picture, instead it's the face of Mohamed Atta, one of the terrorist who crashed a plane into the Twin Towers on 9/11. How the hell does this happen? Well no one really knows exactly. The best guess is that InsuranceSavings, the website who posted the ad, was using random images from the wide web of the Internet as their advertisement photo. And knowing how dark and screwy that wide web could be, is it really all that surprising that somebody plastered the face of a terrorist on a driver license? Ugh. Mohamed Atta was one of the terrorist hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 who piloted the plane to crash into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. His stone cold photo had become iconic in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy because it showed the sort of bone chilling mass murderer who was capable of killing thousands of innocent people. How it ended up on Facebook, as an advertisement, is a complete embarrassment to everyone involved and most of all, to Facebook itself. Facebook is notorious for letting third-rate, borderline-spam ads clutter and scar its website. It's repulsive, really. If Facebook wants to be treated like a big boy company, it should ramp up its ad policies and ban awful ads like this from ever happening again. You're not MySpace. The company who posted the ad has pulled Atta's photo from Facebook and is conducting a full investigation into how this fiasco all happened. I think Facebook should conduct a full investigation too.[/release] [IMG]http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/4/2012/02/terroristfb.jpg[/IMG] The ad in question: [IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44722719/AIC.jpg[/IMG]

I hate those scam ads.

I swear, you can't make this shit up.

He's cute.

God I hate Gizmondo. A "big boy company"?Get better writers also as if Facebook isn't being treated like one right now they went public FFS.

On the ad he looks like an older woman after a bunch of plastic surgeries.

woah

[QUOTE=MachiniOs;34865640]God I hate Gizmondo. A "big boy company"?Get better writers also as if Facebook isn't being treated like one right now they went public FFS.[/QUOTE] That's Gawker Media for you; their professionalism has fallen harshly as of late. I still use Kotaku since they're pretty good at collecting all the big video game news stories from around the net into a single, neat feed, but their writing quality has been fucking atrocious since their last editor left.

yes it's facebook's fault they should be screening every ad to see if it has a picture of a dead terrorist on it

facebook ads are the best, you can always trust them [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ML5Fp.png[/IMG] seems legit

its a picture of a drivers license, it does the job. I mean its not like people will know off-hand that its a 9/11 terrorist unless they actually pay attention to the ad.

So funny. And "surely" not unheard

somebody explain [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/3zDV1.jpg[/IMG]

I want one.

[QUOTE=kirederf7;34865617]He's cute.[/QUOTE] Ron Paul 2012

[QUOTE=simsfreak63;34865597]I swear, you can't make this shit up.[/QUOTE] Absolutely right. It's like jokes write themselves :v:

News like these just [I]blow[/I] your mind.

No, no, this is the most legit ad ever. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/emrfish6/btowlulz.jpg[/IMG]

This is hilarious, person who wrote that article sounds like a dipshit moral guardian. You can tell by the use of words such as 'Disgusting'.

obviously insurance agents are terrorists send in the army

[QUOTE=lulzbocksV2;34865595]I hate those scam ads.[/QUOTE] Someone will hate them even more than you because of that. [editline]26th February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=KlaseR;34866590]somebody explain [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/3zDV1.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Just for a while? No thanks then. And I don't love funny.

I don't understand if these ads are intentionally shit, or whether they do that on purpose. There's always completely unrealistic pictures and terrible wording (possibly translations?)

[QUOTE=kenshin6;34869223]No, no, this is the most legit ad ever. [IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v730/emrfish6/btowlulz.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] Lose weight AND melanin.

[QUOTE=Soleeedus;34865786]facebook ads are the best, you can always trust them [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/ML5Fp.png[/IMG] seems legit[/QUOTE] To be fair, though, "hacker" is such a vague term that it encompasses pretty much everything ever.

[QUOTE=MachiniOs;34865640]God I hate Gizmondo. A "big boy company"?Get better writers also as if Facebook isn't being treated like one right now they went public FFS.[/QUOTE] It's a blog dressed up to look like a 'big boy' news source expect nothing less

After reading the article the only think I could think of is "Who the fuck cares"

[QUOTE=areolop;34872778]After reading the article the only think I could think of is "Who the fuck cares"[/QUOTE] The families of 9/11 victims?

To be honest I really doubt that the families even know who that guy is.

[QUOTE=Alien_23;34876551]The families of 9/11 victims?[/QUOTE] because they're always on the lookout for this terrorist, right? right? guys

I miss out on all these ads thanks to Adblock.