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    Why <em>Breitbart</em> Fired an Editor for a Tweet

    Katie McHugh’s views were no secret. Her exit from <em>Breitbart News</em> reflects changes at the top.
    by Rosie Gray Jun 07, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

    The final straw was something that, at any news organization, would have gotten someone fired.

    "There would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didn't live there,” tweeted Breitbart News’s Katie McHugh, in the wake of the London Bridge attack that killed eight and injured 48 people. McHugh then responded to a critical tweet from an Iranian American actor by telling him he was Indian.

    And . But this wasn’t an anomaly. During her time at , McHugh consistently made racially charged statements on her Twitter feed and used the argot of the alt-right twittersphere. Apart from Milo Yiannopolous, the site’s provocative former tech editor who resigned in disgrace earlier this year, McHugh was possibly

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