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FAIRFAX newspaper The Age is scrambling to address how an offensive message directed at Cardinal George Pell was posted from the Melbourne newspaper’s Facebook account.
Around 8am today The Age Facebook page published a post linking to an article about the controversial Catholic figure’s involvement with the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse.
Accompanying a picture of Pell and a link to a story detailing allegations that he bribed a sex abuse victim were the accompanying words “Die Pell”.
The post has since been removed, but was visible on The Age’s Facebook page for around an hour.
Editor-in-Chief Andrew Holden is yet to respond to questions about the post, but told 3AW’s Neil Mitchell he believed it was the work of “a hacker”.
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