
The New York Times has deleted a tweet saying “airplanes took aim” at the Twin Towers on 9/11 after getting flack for not mentioning that Al Queda terrorists had hijacked the planes that brought down the towers, killing close to 3,000 people.
The original tweet read: “18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center. Today families will once again gather and grieve at the site where more than 2000 people died.”
But that tweet was quickly scrubbed following a fury on Twitter that continued even after the offending tweet was removed.