One common — and immensely dickish — response is that it's "not a big deal," and that it's the responsibility of person who has been mistreated or marginalized to remove themselves and stop complaining about it. The Onion, wisely, decided to take another tack, by acknowledging, owning and apologizing for the tweet on their Facebook page and site this morning:.
No person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire. The tweet was taken down within an hour of publication.
We have instituted new and tighter Twitter procedures to ensure that this kind of mistake does not occur again. In addition, we are taking immediate steps to discipline those individuals responsible. Miss Wallis, you are young and talented and deserve better.
All of us at The Onion are deeply sorry. No one ever said that being a good person -- or trying to understand the struggles and perspectives of people whose experiences are alien to us — would be easy. It's a life-long process, and one where all of us are going to have moments where we accidentally step in it, either through ignorance or bad judgment.
The attack is the second high-profile Twitter hack undertaken by the SEA in the past two weeks. The tweet immediately sent the Dow Jones plummetting by about points until the AP was able to clear its name and the White House denied the report.
Twitter responded to that attack by providing a statement to Wired that said it is testing a a two-factor authentication process for its users and will release it shortly. Colin Neagle writes about emerging technologies and the internet, among other things, and also manages Network World's blogs. Here are the latest Insider stories. It was crude and offensive — not to mention inconsistent with The Onion's commitment to parody and satire, however biting. No person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire.
The tweet was taken down within an hour of publication. We have instituted new and tighter Twitter procedures to ensure that this kind of mistake does not occur again.
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