A Los Angeles TV information channel posted a single-word tweet with the N-word Friday — sparking outrage and prompting the station to apologize for the “technical error.”
KTLA, often known as Channel 5, tweeted the slur with no context Friday morning, and screenshots shortly unfold by the web earlier than the station might delete it.
“Someone’s getting fired today,” one X person proclaimed, whereas one other slammed “KKKTLA just took their white hood off.”
The station shortly posted a mea culpa.
“KTLA experienced a technical error while adding language filters to our social media accounts, resulting in an offensive word being accidentally shared. We are appalled and apologize that this occurred,” the station tweeted.
The information channel was referring to an X performance that permits customers to “mute” sure phrases, successfully blocking them from seeing any tweets that embrace these phrases.
The reason signifies that the station’s social media coordinator meant so as to add the N-word to its record of “muted” phrases however by accident posted it as a substitute.
Observers, nonetheless, had been skeptical of the reason.
“Aside from this obviously not being true — why would a news outlet need language filters on social media accounts?,” one X person tweeted.
“That’s your excuse?” one other wrote.
The station didn’t instantly return The Submit’s request for remark Friday.
