Wall Street Journal is facing the heat after a huge blunder on Twitter. The publication accidentally tweeted a headline about Chinese President Xi Jinping with racist connotations.
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— Sean McElwee (@SeanMcElwee) August 31, 2015 We recently removed a tweet on our Xi Jinping article because a common idiom used might be seen as a slur. No offense was intended.
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) August 31, 2015 When your editor is on vacation and they let you write the title. https://t.co/eTLS4qbH7B
— Alejandro Burgos (@301whereimfrom) August 31, 2015 You really didn’t read that headline, did you? https://t.co/oa1jN6LANR
— Dan J. Glickman (@DanJGlickman) August 31, 2015 Boy, this is not how you do social media https://t.co/dgJZjY0SiP
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 31, 2015 You might want to rethink this. https://t.co/7u9tChCNnb
— Iminir (@Calls_The_Storm) August 31, 2015 
