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.”

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Some suggested the outlet's error was a ploy to gain clicks while other's just marveled at one of the first L's of 2017.

https://twitter.com/NerdBryant/status/817244176584687616 It’s a new year and one thing still remains the same Black Twitter is still greatness and has the ability to “tweet through” any situation. Case in point, earlier tonight Yahoo Finance’s Twitter Account made one of the most egregious Twitter errors ever when they tweeted this: Now any smart person knows whoever is […]