US Airways Won't Fire The Person Responsible For Its Pornographic Tweet [THE BRIEF]

The New York Daily News reports that US Airways will not fire the in-house social media employee who sent out the pornographic tweet that seemed to capture the Internet's undivided attention Monday afternoon. A spokesperson for the company told the Daily News that the tweet, which showed a naked woman with a model plane inserted into her vagina, was "an honest mistake" that occurred while the employee was attempting to flag the photo as inappropriate.

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