Match.com’s corporate comms director sends baffling tweet about AIDS

This is an outrageous, offensive comment that does not reflect the views and values of IAC. Unfortunately, the employee in question is unreachable on an international flight, but this is a very serious matter and we are taking appropriate action.

Responses to Sacco’s tweet are almost entirely displays of wide-eyed astonishment. One says simply, “Yikes.” Another is a brief, “Oh hell no.” Spot.Us founder David Cohn tweeted, “Is that tweet real? You work in PR. You [should] know better.” This isn’t the first time Sacco has been caught tweeting stuff she should have probably kept to herself. In January, she tweeted, “I can’t be fired for things I say while intoxicated right?” And in February, she took some heat for this tweet from February 2012: Sacco didn’t lose her job over those two tweets. We’ll see what IAC’s “appropriate action” will be this time. UPDATE: According to CNN, not only has Sacco’s Twitter account since been deleted, but IAC has “parted ways” with its now former PR executive. On Saturday, company spokesman Ryan Trostle said: