Clorox bleach company tries to make joke about racially diverse emojis... and fails

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Bleach company Clorox has found itself at the centre of a Twitter-storm after asking: “Where’s the bleach?”

This might seem innocuous, it’s important for a bleach company to know where the bleach is, you might think. However, the tweet was in response to the new batch of emojis which have been noted for their racial diversity.

Understandably some people felt the need to point out the issues with the tweet: