WASHINGTON: The United States Department of Defense had to beat a hasty retreat after "an authorised operator" of its official Twitter account accidentally retweeted a post calling for US President Donald Trump to resign.
Sharp-eyed netizens posted screenshots of the Pentagon's retweet of Twitter user @ProudResister's original message, which was posted on Thursday (Nov 16) local time.
Pentagon spokesperson Dana W White subsequently tweeted from her own account that an "authorised operator" had "erroneously retweeted content that would not be endorsed by the Department of Defense".
"The operator caught this error and immediately deleted it."
Some Twitter users responded to the explanation by calling for the operator's resignation.
"Are we supposed to believe this was done by mistake? Somebody in @DeptofDefense needs to be fired along with anybody working with them!" wrote Twitter user @bullock_baker.
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