Posted on 07/04/2011 2:53:54 AM PDT by markomalley
Rogue 4 July tweets on TV news channel's politics service go viral but Fox News is apparently back in control
Fox News has apparently fallen victim to hacking, with its politics Twitter feed repeatedly announcing President Barack Obama had been shot dead.
@foxnewspolitics began tweeting the information to its 33,000 followers at about 2am local time, with the posts rapidly being shared around the internet.
The rogue tweets appeared to begin after the account sent a message saying Fox had just "regained full access to our Twitter account".
The following tweets all related to the supposed death of Obama, with some posts being very specific about the president's injuries.
"@BarackObama has just passed. The President is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed. President Barack Obama is dead," came the first tweet. The string of messages continued:
"@BarackObama has just passed. Nearly 45 minutes ago, he was shot twice in the lower pelvic area and in the neck; shooter unknown. Bled out", and then: "@BarackObama shot twice at a Ross' restaurant in Iowa while campaigning. RIP Obama, best regards to the Obama family."
Whatever the hoaxer's identity, they do not appear to have been entirely web-savvy. The first three posts revealing the president's death were directed to the @BarackObama Twitter feed, meaning only those following both accounts would have seen the messages.
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Why would a radical leftist group hack a leftist organization.
The hackers are going to make the acquaintance of the Secret Service, the FBI, and any other number of entities.
Because many members of the information generation have high technology and low IQs.
Exactly. But you know for a fact (again, as Ann Coulter points out repeatedly in her books) that liberals are slavering for something like this to use against conservatives and tea party members.
If they had any conscience, values or morals, they would be embarrassed or chagrined by the constant scorching of their faces with exploding cigars, but they have none of those characteristics, so they simply pick up and move on to something else when it turns out to be confirmed liberals...
Just like the “Drive By Media”. (Again, the redundancy)
That’s what I’m saying. Fox was a deliberate target, and the tweet was intended to cause violence. What I’m more curious about is why any hacker would believe a liberal administration is in their best interest?
Why would they and Sarah Palin be blamed for the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords?
I’d prefer him and most of his administration reading about our recovery from a prison cell.
Probably so. The dinosaur media talking heads will, of course, conveniently omit that (a) conservatives/Tea Partiers are unlikely to waste their time hacking, and (b) if they were hackers, they certainly wouldn't focus their efforts on Fox News!
I want him to live to suffer through 1) a humiliating '12 election loss; 2) public disgrace after the full details emerge about his radical agenda and intentions to destroy the U.S.A.
My guess is because most of this class of hackers are leftists themselves. They strive for attention and will use any reason to make people pay attention.
They would welcome any chaos their actions might cause.
FoxNews.com's Twitter feed for political news, FoxNewspolitics, was hacked early Monday morning.
Hackers sent out several malicious and false tweets claiming that President Obama had been assassinated. Those reports are incorrect, of course, and the president is spending the July 4 holiday with his family.
The hacking is being investigated, and FoxNews.com regrets any distress the false tweets may have created.
It could be Fox/Twitter were told by Secret Service or FBI to let them stand while their techies looked into it.
I guarantee that when they catch the kiddies, the kiddies will have liberal world views.
What happened to the Patriot Hackers who retaliated against China back in 2001?
What I was thinking.....a liberal/democratic operative...
...or Soros!
To make conservatives look bad.
Could be that their password was something like "FairAndBalanced" or "FoxTwitterFeed."
If something ever did happen to Barry, Fox would be too busy covering the killer skank mom to even notice.
Exactly
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