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PIC: Thanks to one typo, Yahoo accidentally tweeted out a racist slur last night

Published 09:54 6 Jan 2017 GMT

Conor Heneghan
PIC: Thanks to one typo, Yahoo accidentally tweeted out a racist slur last night

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The tweet was deleted and Yahoo issued an apology shortly afterwards.

When you’re in the publishing business, whether online or print, typos are an occupational hazard; we know that here as well as anyone. Despite extreme care and vigilance, however, one or two mistakes are likely to slip through the cracks every now and again and one can only hope that they are passed off as innocent mistakes. Unfortunately for the Yahoo Finance account, that was never going to happen after a typo in a tweet about Donald Trump and the navy on Thursday night. https://twitter.com/newjerseyjets/status/817271634549575680 The tweet has since been deleted but it was up for approximately 20 minutes and attracted the response you’d expect; to provide some context, ‘n’ is right beside ‘b’ on your standard QWERTY keyboard. https://twitter.com/Cane303/status/817262172367560705 https://twitter.com/ForAmerica/status/817248602783293441 Yahoo published the following tweet in apology shortly afterwards. https://twitter.com/YahooFinance/status/817234871018024961

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PIC: Thanks to one typo, Yahoo accidentally tweeted out a racist slur last night