CBS News boss Bari Weiss reportedly had a direct hand in creating a headline that insinuated Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed deleted supposedly controversial tweets about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The article, “Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s deleted tweets on Sept. 11 attacks invite scrutiny of past remarks,” was published Monday morning, and quickly condemned by some for being racist and promoting Islamophobia.

Unnamed sources later told “Status” writer Oliver Darcy that Weiss had “personally directed that the headline be tweaked to specifically mention that El-Sayed had deleted tweets referencing the September 11 terrorist attack.”

Weiss also “praised” the author of the CBS News article during a morning editorial meeting, “signaling her support for the piece to the entire network,” according to Darcy.

The report in “Status” is just the latest accusation that Weiss, who was installed as editor-in-chief last year, has interfered in her staff’s reporting to push for a more conservative political agenda.

The Independent has asked CBS and its parent company, Paramount, for comment.

Weiss, a former conservative political commentator with no previous broadcast experience, was made editor-in-chief of CBS News last year, after Paramount merged with Skydance. Since taking over CBS News, the company has seen the departure of several producers and reporters, some of whom have accused Weiss of undermining the network’s journalistic integrity.

In the latest accusation, Weiss is accused of pushing a negative story about El-Sayed, a progressive Democratic candidate and practicing Muslim, by linking him to comments about 9/11.

One example, listed in the story, said El-Sayed, an epidemiologist, compared the nearly 3,000 Americans who were killed on 9/11 to the massive death toll of Covid-19 to promote public health policies.

In the now-deleted tweet from 2020, El-Sayed wrote that he hoped the death toll “means we’ll spend the next ten years fighting a war on public health & against poverty… like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11.”

Sources within CBS News told Darcy that the article about El-Sayed was poorly received by staffers who said it called into question the network’s objectivity.

Lawmakers, political commentators and others also questioned the headline.

Congresswoman Delia Ramirez responded to the article on X: “Islamophobia spewed carelessly by elected officials and the media makes us all less safe.”

Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari critiqued: “What an insane, blatantly racist headline. Unreal.”

Liberal commentator Mehdi Hassan responded to the article by asking Weiss, “do you think it’s super offensive and disgusting and Islamophobic to do a tweet about the potential first ever Muslim Democratic senator which begins by referencing 9/11?”

Already, Weiss has faced accusations of interfering in CBS News’ reporting to push narratives.

Correspondent Scott Pelley was fired after accusing Weiss of “murdering ‘60 Minutes.’” Similarly, Anderson Cooper emphasized the importance of editorial independence at “60 Minutes” in his final address. Former “60 Minutes” correspondent Cecilia Vega, who was fired in May, accused Weiss of pushing to include unverified claims in reporting.

Weiss was also accused of spiking a segment on CECOT, the brutal El Salvador prison where President Donald Trump has deported immigrants – though it aired at a later date. She defended her decision at the time, saying her priority was to ensure CBS News’s coverage was “comprehensive and fair.”

In a memo to staff she wrote: “We are not out to score points with one side of the political spectrum or to win followers on social media. We are out to inform the American public and to get the story right.”