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We have breaking developments on a story that's taken the internet boy storm in recent hours. it involves a high-profile pr executive who sent out a tweet before taking off friday to a trip to cape cod -- cape town, rather, south africa. it was a tweet that would have very serious consequences. justin sacco an executive with iac interactive and i'm quoting here going to africa, hope i don't get aids. don't kidding, i'm white. the negative reaction to those words set the twitterverse on fire and it continues up through this hour. cnn's senior media correspondent brian stelter joins me by phone,...

Reflect the views and values of iac. we take this issue very seriously and we have parted ways with the employee in question. they continued by saying, there's no excuse for the hateful statements that have been made and we condemn them unequivocally. we hope, however, the time and action and the forgiving human spirit will not result in the wholesale condemnation of an individual who we have otherwise known to be a decent person at core. that's the statement from iac. i think what we're trying to say is they know this was terrible and inappropriate, but she is a human being and some of the vi...