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Huffington Post forced to apologise for One Direction ISIS tweet

Published 18:08 20 Nov 2015 GMT

Kevin Beirne
Huffington Post forced to apologise for One Direction ISIS tweet

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The Huffington Post have had to apologise after posting a tweet which appeared to link former One Direction star Zayn Malik to ISIS.

The American news site posted a tweet which read: 'What ISIS wants: to destroy the "gray zone of coexistence"' and accompanied it with a picture of the British singer. After receiving a backlash on the incident, @HuffingtonPost tweeted a screengrab of the original post alongside the message: 'We apologize for the original image here. Zayn Malik is mentioned in the story, but is obviously not part of ISIS.' https://twitter.com/huffingtonpost/status/667743807656632320 Some of the commenters were less than amused... https://twitter.com/nately/status/667745157501054976 https://twitter.com/FuturisticHub/status/667758382628016128 https://twitter.com/Asterweireld/status/667755126506000385 https://twitter.com/flouxcapacitor/status/667766124843503616 https://twitter.com/dearanaaa/status/667755147586486272

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