Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Joe Biden …: New York Post employee publishes headlines calling for murder

Thursday 18 October you could read on the website and on the Twitter account of the New York post racist, sexist and violent headlines, such as: ” Eric Adams is New York’s fried chicken monkey ” Where is it ” I will order the Border Patrol to start slaughtering illegal immigrants “.

Headlines in the form of a call to murder

Some have even called for the murder of other political figures, such as Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or even President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The headlines were presented as quotes from Republican politicians and did not refer to any articles. Enough to throw a little more oil on the flames of political tensions on the eve of the mid-term legislative elections, the famous ” middle term “, Scheduled for November 8th. the New York post announced for the first time that it was being hacked. Later that day, he revealed in a statement shared by the American press that it was the actions of one of his employees. He would be fired immediately.

“hateful” content.

The New York Post he also said he took appropriate measures and deleted all titles published by the rebel employee. But some of the objectives of these publications do not intend to stop there. Like New York Governor Kathy Hochul, targeted by this title: ” Zeldin: I will rape and beat Hochul’s pussy “. Zeldin is referring to Republican Lee Zeldin, Hochul’s opponent in the upcoming New York government elections.” The New York Post must immediately explain how this questionable content was made public, Hochul’s campaign team said in a statement. While the Post has made clear its preferences in the run-up to the New York government, there is no room for such violent and sexist rhetoric in our politics. We ask for answers. “

Conservative newspaper, the New York post had called to vote for Donald Trump in 2016. He then qualified these titles as “ vile and questionable content “For some, these hateful headlines are in the image of what the newspaper usually publishes. On Twitter, the editor-in-chief of the front page of Huffington Postwrote Philip Lewis : ” I’m not going to lie, it looks like the usual NY Post, so I just kept scrolling “. Chief Editor to Occupy DemocratsGrant Stern made the same comment : “NY Post Hacked: Most Readers Couldn’t Tell the Difference.” What to ask about the best way to qualify the person behind these titles: rebellious employee … or zealous?

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