Updated: Saturday, Dec. 21, 8:10 a.m. ET: Justine Sacco's Twitter account has been deleted. It is speculated that the account was closed after her landing on the African continent. In addition, according to Deadline.com, IAC, where she worked as director of Corporate Communications, has removed her profile from its site.
Updated: Friday, Dec. 20, 4:47 p.m. ET: A representative from IAC emailed the following comment to the International Business Times regarding the tweet:
"This is an outrageous, offensive comment that does not reflect the views and values of IAC. Unfortunately, the employee in question is unreachable on an international flight, but this is a very serious matter and we are taking appropriate action."
Earlier:
If the tweets coming from Justine Sacco's Twitter account are being written by her, then she may want to find another line of work. That's because the director of communications for IAC—a leading media and Internet company focused in the core areas of search, applications, online dating, local and media, according to its Web page—allegedly just tweeted, "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"
ValleyWag first reported the derogatory tweet and mentions that IAC manages such popular brands as Vimeo, OkCupid, Tinder, CollegeHumor and Dictionary.com.
People on Twitter are questioning the authenticity of the tweet because if it is real, then that means a director of communications for one of the nation's largest media companies just blasted herself.
As of press time the tweet is still live on what appears to be Sacco's personal account. A quick browse through her Twitter timeline shows that this isn't the first time Sacco has allegedly sent out a ridiculously offensive tweet. Sometime last year she sent, "I had a sex dream about an autistic kid last night. #fml."
We will be updating this story throughout the day. But this can't be right, can it?
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