The New York Times honored mass murdering communist tyrant Mao Zedong today as “One of History’s Great Revolutionary Figures.”

This was posted on the New York Times archives Twitter account.

For some reason they forgot to mention the 60-70 million dead Chinese under this tyrant’s rule.

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After on online uproar the NY Times deleted the tweet.

…But only after the uproar.

We’ve deleted a previous tweet about Mao Zedong that lacked critical historical context. — NYT Archives (@NYTArchives) September 9, 2019

This is the same “news” organization whose columnist Michelle Goldberg claimed she has had insomnia since the “cursed” night of Trump’s election victory.