New York Post Fires Employee Responsible for ‘Vile’ Posts

     

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The New York Post employee responsible for a Thursday morning hack of the newspaper’s Twitter feed and website has been fired for “unauthorized conduct,” a spokesperson for the newspaper said.

Tweets on the paper’s account linked to pages on its website with offensive headlines, including calling for the assassination of some US leaders as well as racist and misogynistic content.