Hillary Clinton’s new campaign logo was the subject of fevered comment as soon as it hit the internet on Sunday.

Some pointed out flaws in its basic symbolism, as a red arrow – the colour of US Republicanism – striking to the right, through what people said looked like a blue blockade.

Wikileaks entered the fray to accuse Hillary of plagiarising their own logo, which also, erm, features a red arrow.

But others saw a more sinister image at play.

Is it just me or that Hillary Clinton's campaign logo looks like the plane hitting the towers? pic.twitter.com/I8wKD5GFF3 — WPlay (@TheWPlay) April 12, 2015

No, WPlay … it’s not just you.

That Hillary logo looks like a big red jet flying through the twin towers. — Dan Kervick (@DanMKervick) April 12, 2015

"Hi, I'm Hillary Clinton and for some reason my campaign logo looks the plane flying through the Twin Towers." #9/11 pic.twitter.com/ClRTkKhlTi — Michael Malice (@michaelmalice) April 12, 2015

“I’ve heard nothing about that,” said Andy Steele, the head of media outreach for Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, when asked about the mini-Twitterstorm.

He said that he wasn’t aware of anyone in his organisation who had heard of links between Clinton’s campaign logo and the twin towers.



“Our focus is on the science of the controlled demolition that day,” he said, referring to a theory that the towers were brought down by demolition rather than as a result of the planes’ impact, adding: “We don’t get into conspiracy theories.”

Some tweets used the reference to directly attack the Clinton campaign. One conservative tweeter, called UTHornsRawk, was responsible for some of the more egregious Photoshopped efforts:

UTHornsRawk did not respond to a request for comment.

Chris Humphrey, the owner and editor of 3dotnews, a US-based news aggregation site, attempted to link the foreign policy of the Bill Clinton administration with the attacks.



“After seeing the Hillary Clinton campaign logo on Sunday I was struck by its likeness to many photos the 9/11 WTC terror attacks,” he told the Guardian. “Coupled with the Clinton regime’s many missed opportunities to prevent the 9/11 terror attacks in the years leading up to 9/11/2001, I found the campaign logo to be so ironic in design.

“With the addition of a plane and an antenna my Photoshopped version of the Clinton logo transformed it into quite the indictment of Clinton policy and the costly wars we have fought since then.”

.@HillaryClinton The Hillary Clinton campaign logo is a little creepy given Clinton regime policy contributed to 9/11 pic.twitter.com/jt5KvpmdI8 — 3DOTNEWSCOM (@3DOTNEWS) April 12, 2015

Some Twitter users interpreted the logo in a slightly different way: