BuzzFeed News deleted a tweet that received backlash for saying that a man who pleaded guilty to vandalizing a synagogue was inspired, in part, by reading Jewish commentator Ben Shapiro.

The original tweet, which received thousands of retweets and likes, said: “A man who vandalized a synagogue with Nazi symbols told federal agents his road to radicalization included meeting with the far-right group Identity Evropa and reading Ben Shapiro, Breitbart News, and the Nazi propaganda site Stormfront.”

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