NY Times Abruptly Fires Its New Nazi-Befriending Editorial Board Hire https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ny-times-quinn-norton-neonazis_us_5a837db8e4b0cf06751f8fbe
The New York Times has fired journalist Quinn Norton, its brand new editorial board hire, HuffPost has learned. At around 3 p.m. on Tuesday, the paper's communications department tweeted that it had hired Norton as its "lead opinion writer on the power, culture and consequences of technology." Twitter users immediately began pointing to her past tweets, in which she's admitted she's "friends with various neo-Nazis" - though she says she has "never agreed with them." In other tweets, she's called users "fag" and used racial slurs. - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir