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Springfield, MO
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted an apology Thursday for the social media website accidentally allowing a promoted ad from a white supremacist group to show up.
"We made a mistake here and we apologize," Dorsey said. "Our automated system allowed an ad promoting hate. Against our policy. We did a retro and fixed!"
A Twitter spokeswoman said the ad was live for less than an hour. It was an ad posted by white supremacist group New Order that linked to an article titled "The United States Was Founded as a White People's Republic." The tweet included the hashtag #WhiteAmerica.
The account that tweeted the ad has been suspended.
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