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.’
We apologize for the original image here. Zayn Malik is mentioned in the story, but is obviously not part of ISIS. pic.twitter.com/CzEaDwxs3y
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) November 20, 2015
Some of the commenters were less than amused…
https://twitter.com/nately/status/667745157501054976
https://twitter.com/FuturisticHub/status/667758382628016128
@kaatieeee_x3 @HuffingtonPost it's so disrespectful in so many ways. I'm not even a 1D or Zayn fan but this pisses me off because I'm human
— Lucas (@Asterweireld) November 20, 2015
@HuffingtonPost why would you even mention zayn malik in a story about that
— sighs ¹ᴰ (@searingpayne) November 20, 2015
https://twitter.com/dearanaaa/status/667755147586486272
