Journalists and Celebs Rush to Delete Tweets Slamming MAGA-Hat KidsMediaite, Jan 21, 2019, Pardes Seleh
You can delete your old tweets, but the internet is forever. At least, that’s what the Screenshot Bot tells us.
Over the past 24 hours, journalists and public figures on Twitter have deleted previous posts slamming a group of MAGA hat-wearing teens for allegedly taunting a Native American vet, after more footage was released disputing the initial story. From CNN’s Jake Tapper to Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, many on the internet are sharing a fuller explanation of the initial viral story.
Others, however, are very subtly just using the ‘delete’ button.
Recode editor and New York Times contributing op-ed writer Kara Swisher, for instance, deleted one tweet saying she was thinking of “finding every one of these shitty kids and giving them a very large piece of my mind,†and other tweets throwing slurs like “Nazi†and “nationalist.†Sinclair chief political correspondent Scott Thurman deleted a tweet alleging students in MAGA hats were “mocking†and “taunting†a Native American in front of the Lincoln Memorial in D.C., asking in a new tweet if the new video changed minds about the kids.
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