Hasan Piker draws fresh scrutiny after framing newspaper covering 9/11 attacks in stream background

Controversial streamer Hasan Piker is facing renewed scrutiny over a recent addition to his visual background during his streams.Viewers noticed what appeared to be a framed copy of the front page of a newspaper with an image of the Sept.

11, 2001, attack on the Twin Towers in New York City.The earliest livestream reviewed by Fox News Digital showing the newspaper in the background was broadcast on July 13.The front page appears to be The New York Times' Sept.

12, 2001, edition, which was headlined, "U.S.Attacked: Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers and Hit Pentagon in Day of Terror." The X account DSA Watch on Tuesday posted a clip of Piker's stream, where he discussed the newspaper front page framed on the wall behind him."You might have noticed something, some changes behind me.

I finally framed the cutie Cinderella newspaper from 9/11, the morning of 9/12… the newspaper that covered 9/11.It's now officially sitting behind me," he told viewers earlier this month.Piker was widely criticized after saying that "America deserved 9/11" during a stream in 2019.

After facing immense backlash, Piker said in an interview that he "obviously" did not mean that America deserved the attacks and accused critics of disregarding "the actual truth of what I was talking about," explaining the viral quote as a critique of U.S.foreign policy.ABDUL EL-SAYED SAYS RALLYING WITH HASAN PIKER DOESN'T MEAN HE ENDORSES 'AMERICA DESERVED 9/11' REMARKTwitch streamer Hasan Piker is facing renewed scrutiny after viewers spotted a framed newspaper front page from Sept.

12, 2001, reporting the 9/11 attacks in his background.(Sam Barnes/Web Summit via Sportsfile via Getty Images)"I should have used more precise and better use of language there," Piker said in the interview.

"It's messed up that I would give the opportunity to the right to try to morally grandstand on an issue like this when they are 100% responsible for all the bloodshed that has been caused."He later admitted in the intervi...