in the header image on a blog, ironically,spoke
about being assaulted by classmates for her Yemeni and Egyptian heritage, saying she’d been “pinned down in the toilets” by racists at school. MSN.com’s news-sourcing algorithm quickly picked up the story and attached a photograph of Pinnock, who is Barbadian and Jamaican.
“This shit happens to @leighannepinnock and I ALL THE TIME that it’s become a running joke,” Thirlwall tweeted. “It offends me that you couldn’t differentiate the two women of colour out of four members of a group … DO BETTER!”MSN.com doesn’t produce its own journalism but instead curates and reposts news from other sources on Microsoft’s website, which then splits ad revenue with the original sources.
“As soon as we became aware of this issue, we immediately took action to resolve it and have replaced the incorrect image,” a spokesperson said in a statement.