The Washington Post on Thursday deleted a tweet that said the Waukesha tragedy was “caused by a SUV.”
“We’ve deleted a previous tweet for this story that included language that was changed after publish,” read a tweet to the newspaper’s 18.4 million followers.
The original tweet read, “Here’s what we know so far on the sequence of events that led to the Waukesha tragedy caused by a SUV.” It was replaced by one that read, “What we know so far on the sequence of events that led to the Waukesha tragedy.”
The initial tweet caused significant backlash late Wednesday, especially on the right, as observers quipped “a renegade SUV did this,” asked if the SUV had “been charged” with anything and accused Post journalists of being “biased.”