The Republican National Committee s initial attempt to celebrate Independence Day bombed on Twitter when critics noticed that the party used the wrong flag.
Instead of Old Glory, the RNC shared an image of two flags, each with a single star in its blue field and the wrong number of stripes around it.
Some critics said it was the flag of Liberia, a nation in West Africa, but the stripes didnt quite line up with that, either.
The RNC deleted the tweet after critics mocked the organization for botching what should have been a simple image.
But while the tweet is gone, screenshots remain:
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The image appears to be from Shutterstock .
Several other places including the San Francisco district attorney and the Austin Police Department used the same set of incorrect flags in their Independence Day messages.
Those tweets remained online at the time of publication.
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