In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, Rupert Murdoch posted the following message on Twitter: “Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible.” Murdoch followed this up with an additional post about a “big jihadist danger” throughout the world that should not be ignored out of a desire for “political correctness.”
Murdoch’s statements were easily exposed as illogical and uninformed. Other celebrity social media commentators asked, tongue-in-cheek, whether Murdoch, as a Christian, had taken steps to root out child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, or had tried to stop Mark David Chapman’s assassination of John Lennon. Murdoch later apologized for his comments, but not before they were endorsed and shared by thousands of others.
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