The NY Times has updated that awful 9/11 article we told you about earlier and deleted the tweet that said, “18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center.”

Here’s the new tweet:

18 years after nearly 3,000 people were lost, families of those killed in the terror attacks will gather at the 9/11 memorial. There will be a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., then the names of the dead — one by one — will be recited. https://t.co/rFn2evf1dA — The New York Times (@nytimes) September 11, 2019

“Edited for clarity”? Yeah, OK. Go with that:

We've deleted an earlier tweet to this story and have edited for clarity. The story has also been updated. — The New York Times (@nytimes) September 11, 2019

And here’s the one they deleted:

a tweet tragically cut down in the prime of its life. gone, but not forgotten. pic.twitter.com/T5jIqSESfu — T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) September 11, 2019

This stupidity was in the lede of the old article as well:

And the new version:

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