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Burger King’s Creepy Hijack Ad Backfires Hilariously

Burger King’s Creepy Hijack Ad Backfires Hilariously

By now you’ve probably heard about the Burger King TV commercial, in which a young employee says, “Ok, Google, what is the Whopper burger?” His sentence triggered Google-enabled devices to pull up the Wikipedia entry for the Whopper sandwich, which the Burger King marketing director had conveniently just edited to reflect more commercialized text…and then it all went wrong.