When New Yorker fact-checker Talia Lavin posted a series of photos on Twitter mistakenly implying that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent had a Nazi tattoo, she was quickly informed of her error. So she deleted her tweet, and explained why in a follow-up. Within a week, she found herself resigning from her job.
“I just feel like I made a small mistake and it’s destroyed my life,” Lavin told the Cut today.
She first posted her tweet in the early morning hours of Monday, June 18th, and her follow-up came shortly after.