A Los Angeles TV news channel published a single-word tweet with N-Word Friday Sparking outrage and promising the Station to apologize for the “technical error.”
Ktla, known as Channel 5, tweeted the insult without context on Friday morning, and the screenshots quickly extended online before the station could eliminate it.
“Someone is being fired today,” an X user proclaimed, while another criticized “Kkktla has just taught her white hood.”
The station quickly published a mea guilt.
“KTLA experienced a technical error by adding language filters to our social media accounts, resulting in an offensive word that is accidentally shared. We are horrified and we apologize for this to happen,” the station tweeted.
The news channel referred to an X functionality that allows users to “silence” certain words, from them effective that see tweets that include those words.
The explanation indicates that the stations of the Meeant Social Network Coordinator to add the word N to their list of words “turned off”, but they published it accidentally.
The observers, however, were skeptical of the explanation.
“Apart from this, it is not true, why a news tomato would need language filters in social media accounts?”
“Is that your excuse?” Another wrote.
The station did not immediately return the request for Post comments on Friday.