New York Post Says Employee Was Behind ‘Unauthorized’ Posts - The New York Times

The New York Post said connected Thursday that an worker had been down a bid of “unauthorized” vulgar and racist tweets and headlines connected its website earlier successful the day.

The posts connected Twitter included a notation to Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, falsely attributing statements astir her to Representative Lee Zeldin, her hostile successful the coming election, arsenic good arsenic posts astir Mayor Eric Adams of New York and President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.

The worker besides utilized The Post’s interior publishing strategy to republish an editorial astir Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and alteration the byline to Ben Shapiro, the blimpish commentator. The header was changed to say: “We indispensable assassinate AOC for America.”

A spokeswoman for The Post said successful an email: “The New York Post’s probe indicates that the unauthorized behaviour was committed by an employee, and we are taking due action.”

The spokeswoman added that the enactment “immediately removed the vile and reprehensible contented from our website and societal media accounts.”

Earlier connected Thursday, the Post said that its Twitter relationship and publishing strategy had been hacked.

Jen Goodman, a spokeswoman for Ms. Hochul’s campaign, demanded that The Post code however the vile tweets were capable to beryllium published.

“The New York Post has agelong fostered an ugly, toxic speech connected their beforehand pages and societal accounts, but these posts are much disgusting and vile than usual,” Ms. Goodman said successful a statement.