The Department of Education called the attention of LBC (Luzon Brokerage Movement) management for showing a commercial that encouraged wrong spelling among children. In a spelling bee contest, the emcee played by Edu Manzano called the contestants to spell remittance, affordable, and instant. They spelled out "LBC" instead. DepEd said that the commercial was encouraging wrong spelling of words. What is the social responsibility of entrepreneurs or advertisers to customers based on the example given above?

The Department of Education called the attention of LBC (Luzon Brokerage Movement) management for showing a commercial that encouraged wrong spelling among children. In a spelling bee contest, the emcee played by Edu Manzano called the contestants to spell remittance, affordable, and instant. They spelled out "LBC" instead. DepEd said that the commercial was encouraging wrong spelling of words. What is the social responsibility of entrepreneurs or advertisers to customers based on the example given above?

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