L'Oréal Argentina accused of sexist tweets

Published: 18-Mar-2016
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The cosmetics company was criticised for its tweets using the #mesientomujer hashtag

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L'Oréal Argentina accused of sexist tweets

L’Oréal Argentina has come under fire from Twitter users after a series of tweets the company posted on 8 March were considered by some to be sexist and offensive.

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