Review urged after blood-spattered shirt ads ran alongside domestic violence news in Australia
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Gruesome ads embedded in articles about family violence ‘make light’ of violence and could distress victim-survivors, expert warns
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News stories about domestic violence inadvertently ran alongside advertisements for faux-bloodstained shirts reading “problem solved”, prompting advocates for victim-survivors to urge publishers to avoid making light of recent deaths.
Australia is reckoning with a surge in family and domestic violence incidents after three women were allegedly murdered in unrelated incidents on Saturday, and police allege a mother stabbed her three children on Sunday.
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