NewsOne reports:
Yahoo Finance’s social media team tweeted out the following headline around 10:01 p.m. EST: “Trump wants a much nigger navy: Here’s how much it’ll cost.”
Black twitter collectively formed the #NiggerNavy and went in with memes and gifs exposing the error. Buzzfeed News credits @JeSuisDawn with creating the hashtag.
Yahoo Finance tweeted out an apology around midnight, but the damage had already been done.
Check out the funniest Twitter responses in the accompanying gallery.
1. Word to Soulja Boy.
2. Free before 12!
3. Barely…
4. History repeats.
5. Waves don’t die.
6. El Oh El!
7. CP time.
8. Where’s the lie?
9. Almost 500 to be exact.
Black Twitter’s Response To Yahoo’s N-Word Typo Is Pure Internet Gold
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