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Billboard have apologised for this 'vile' tweet about North West

The tweet did NOT sit well.

Oct 30th 2015, 10:00 PM 11,958 Views 9 Comments

POOR LITTLE NORTH West can’t catch a break, and she’s only two years old.

The little girl was captured on camera telling paparazzi that she didn’t want her photo taken, and now she’s the center of a twitterstorm surrounding some controversial tweets by music magazine, Billboard.

This is the offending tweet that caused the backlash, which linked to the story about the paparazzi incident:

The tweet appeared for two hours on the official Twitter account, before it was deleted among a flurry of Twitter users claiming it was laden with innuendo.

.@billboard Please take down the title of your article. The headline and picture regarding North West is vile and very distrubing.
— KimmieDeez (@KimmieDeez) October 30, 2015

Source: Lana Kane/Twitter

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.@billboard she's a damn baby. An editor should never position such innuendo on the image of a child, regardless of her famous parent.
— Janet Mock (@janetmock) October 30, 2015

Source: Janet Mock/Twitter

Still repulsed that @Billboard wrote a story about how cute and sassy it was that a child thought she had the right to control her body.
— Angus Johnston (@studentactivism) October 30, 2015

Source: One-Ghost Johnston/Twitter

@billboard
she's a child
she's a child
she's a child
she's a child
she's a child
she's a child
she's a child
she's a child
she's a child
— barbie. (@sharnTM) October 30, 2015

Source: Zola/Twitter

Billboard later changed the tweet to the story, and apologised for the mistake

North West is already pretty sassy (but in a cute way) https://t.co/lSuMsTpdWB pic.twitter.com/tF6ORO2hY3
— billboard (@billboard) October 30, 2015

Source: billboard/Twitter

We apologize for the tweet involving North West. The caption was about her comments to paparazzi. The suggestion some see was not intended.
— billboard (@billboard) October 30, 2015

Source: billboard/Twitter

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Billboard have apologised for this 'vile' tweet about North West