apology

Mars Wrigley, makers of the Snickers candy bar, apologised for a Snickers product launch which suggested that Taiwan was a country. On August 5, Wrigley said, the content with the wrong information has been amended. Notably, videos and pictures of an event promoting a limited edition Snickers bar that was said to be only available in the "countries" of South Korea, Malaysia, went viral on Chinese social-media platform Weibo.

The Jharkhand COVID-19 incentive issue took a legal turn after state health minister Banna Gupta sent a legal notice to an independent MLA Surya Roy, on April 20. In the notice, Gupta demanded an unconditional apology through any media form for allegations against him, tarnishing his image. Notably, MLA Surya Roy accused Minister Gupta of using COVID-19 incentive funds for the salaries of 60 people in the health ministry.

After receiving immense backlash for his homophobic comments, rapper DaBaby has again received retaliation from the public after deleting his apology. He had posted an apology letter on Instagram for his HIV/AIDs comments during the "Rolling Loud" festival. "Social media moves so fast that people want to demolish you before you even have the opportunity to grow, educate, and learn from your mistakes," said his post.

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) on January 9 issued "sincere apologies" after its Twitter handle accidentally shared actor Mouni Roy's picture. Moreover, the stock exchange denied any hacking efforts and accepted the blunder as a "human error". The post had also tagged the actress and used hash-tags like ‘sexydiva’ and ‘hotgirl’ among others. However, it was deleted… read-more

Hollywood actor Anne Hathaway apologized on her Instagram for negatively representing people with limb differences in her movie "The Witches." Hathaway said, "I particularly want to say I’m sorry to kids with limb differences: now that I know better, I promise I’ll do better." The actor further added that the incident could have been avoided if she made the connection between limb differences and the look of her character.