Justine Sacco’s offensive tweet has been deleted. Photo: Twitter
An employee for the US internet company InterActiveCorp must have thought her Twitter comment on Africa was quite funny, well the expensive joke might just cost her, her job.
Justine Sacco, a communications director for IAC right before boarding a flight to a country in Africa tweeted ‘Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!‘.
Sacco then boarded the plane and couldn’t access the internet for
hours, little did she know the hailstorm she had raised on the internet
and embarrassment she had caused the company.
Not only has the tweet been deleted,
Sacco’s Twitter account has also been wiped off the face of the web. IAC
has also released a statement over the matter, profusely apologising
for the offensive remark.
‘This is an outrageous, offensive
comment that does not reflect the views and values of IAC.
Unfortunately, the employee in question is unreachable on an
international flight, but this is a very serious matter and we are
taking appropriate action.” IAC said in a statement.
There have also been reports that Sacco
has been fired from the company. NET has reached out to IAC but we’re
yet to get a response as at the time of this report.
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