{"id":94105,"date":"2013-12-21T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T12:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=94105"},"modified":"2013-12-21T14:10:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T12:10:34","slug":"racist-aids-tweet-causes-outrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/94105-racist-aids-tweet-causes-outrage.html","title":{"rendered":"Racist AIDS tweet causes outrage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An American public relations consultant for a media company sparked outrage on social media sites on Saturday after tweeting that she would not contract Aids because she is white, SABC news reported.<\/p>\n<p>Justine Sacco tweeted on Friday: &#8220;Going to Africa, hope I don&#8217;t get AIDS. Just kidding, I&#8217;m white&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sacco is head of public relations for InterActiveCorp (IAC).<\/p>\n<p>The hashtag &#8220;#HasJustineLandedYet&#8221; was trending on social media site Twitter as people tracked her flight from London&#8217;s Heathrow Airport to the Cape Town International Airport, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>IAC which owns match.com condemned the tweet and has since distanced itself.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Internet news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/94098-facebook-second-round-stock-offering-at-usd55-05.html\">Facebook second round stock offering at USD55.05<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/94086-kalahari-christmas-shopping-complaints.html\">Kalahari Christmas shopping complaints<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/94090-silk-road-drug-website-bust.html\">Silk Road drug website bust<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/94043-google-takedown-requests-double.html\">Google takedown requests double<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match.com PR consultant posts a racist tweet about AIDS before heading to Cape Town<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":94107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[35,405,22981],"class_list":["post-94105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-headline","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-gaffe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94109,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94105\/revisions\/94109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}