NEW YORK: Rihanna on Thursday (Friday in Manila) denounced Snapchat after an advertisement made light of her beating by fellow pop star Chris Brown, sending the company's share prices tumbling.

The social media platform—which counts 187 million users, especially young people drawn to its quickly vanishing posts—had featured an advertisement for "Would You Rather?," a game app that asks sometimes provocative questions.

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