Alexi McCammond is out as editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue even before officially starting, she and the magazine's owner announced Thursday. The tweets that Ms. McCammond posted as a 17 year old high school senior has resurfaced and caused the latest uproar. The announcement of her appointment to the job had sparked outrage from the publication's staffers and readers as well as some celebrities because of anti-Asian and homophobic tweets she posted a decade ago. Condé Nast, which owns Teen Vogue, The New Yorker, and other popular magazine titles, was aware of McCammond's tweets prior to her hiring, the company's Chief People Officer, Stan Duncan, revealed in an email to staff on Thursday announcing the news. He wrote that McCammond was "straightforward and transparent about these posts during our interview process and through public apologies years ago."
But McCammond's tweets resurfaced after Condé Nast announced her hiring on March 5, and they immediately prompted backlash. The weekend after the news broke, Diana Tsui, editorial director of recommendations at The Infatuation, posted on Instagram a series of text-based photos calling attention to the McCammond's old tweets and said she was a "questionable hire." It was recirculated by Diet Prada, an Instagram account with 2.5 million followers that shares gossip and drama about the fashion industry.
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