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Salem State University Twitter account hacked on eve of graduation (MAGA etc)
Boston 25 ^ | 5/20/17 | Boston 25

Posted on 05/20/2017 3:45:36 AM PDT by raccoonradio

SALEM, Mass. - Salem State University’s Twitter account was hacked late Friday night.

The tweets started around 10:30 p.m. The hacker sent out racist tweets, and also applauded President Donald Trump. It lasted for about two hours before the university was able to regain control of the account and delete the tweets.

The hack comes just hours before the school’s undergraduate commencement.|

Boston 25 News reached out to school officials for comment.

Salem State’s Facebook page says none of the tweets represent the university’s views. The school also apologized on Twitter.

The university says it is looking into the hack

Salem State Police @SSUPolice The official Salem State University Twitter account has been hacked by unknown miscreant(s) and will be shut down forthwith. 11:54 PM - 19 May 2017 · Salem, MA


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hacked; salemstate


1 posted on 05/20/2017 3:45:36 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Easily guessed password? (LizWarren2020 or something?) Or whoever does the tweets didn’t log out (note time of tweets, it was late evening...was it someone on the cleaning crew?)

Graduated from what is now SSU in ‘84. Our speaker was US Rep Nick Mavroules, who later went to prison for bribery.

College pranks are different from, say, the days of Animal House (based on Darmouth)—the horse led into Dean Wormer’s office... “every spring, the toilets explode.”


2 posted on 05/20/2017 3:48:44 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Looked up Love Sosa, mentioned in one of the tweets. Lyrics—which I have cleaned up:

You in a mix with DJ Five Venoms
DJ motherf———’ Raos (bitches love Sosa)
With them O girl, Rari’s and Rovers

These bitches love Sosa
O end or no end
F——— with them O boys,
You gon’ get f-—— over
Rari’s and Rovers
These hoes love Chief Sosa
Hit him with that cobra,
Now that boy slumped over


3 posted on 05/20/2017 3:52:06 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

False flag maybe? Probably some democrat who did it.


4 posted on 05/20/2017 3:56:38 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is history)
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To: raccoonradio

Wow, those lyrics spoke directly to my soul.


5 posted on 05/20/2017 3:58:18 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: Mark17; All

That’s a possibility... and pinning it on Trump supporters. They did quote a vile rap song...maybe looked up online to find something offensive like that unless they were already familiar with the tune.


6 posted on 05/20/2017 4:00:14 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: Mark17

Of course it is. One of the entitled class, looking to extort money from the university for ‘black reparations’ or some such nonsense. It’s the latest scam building on the foundation laid by the Rainbow Coalition, who went after corporations for millions after similar bogus setups.


7 posted on 05/20/2017 4:06:44 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: Mark17

Probably a Seth Moulton supporter.


8 posted on 05/20/2017 5:26:40 AM PDT by Andy'smom (Proud member of the basket of deplorables)
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To: raccoonradio
The hacker sent out racist tweets, and also applauded President Donald Trump

I saw at least one that applauded Trump, but I didn't see any racist tweets.

9 posted on 05/20/2017 6:15:32 AM PDT by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: Mark17

Amateurish enough for the dnc....


10 posted on 05/20/2017 6:43:00 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: libertylover

Neither did I see any racist tweets.

I think the reference to Love Sosa being the song of a generation is a putdown.


11 posted on 05/20/2017 6:44:14 AM PDT by Tarasaramozart
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To: jalisco555

Yeah, lyrics kinda like a fart in an ekevator.


12 posted on 05/20/2017 7:43:14 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: libertylover; All

It was deleted from the screenshot but Obama was called the n-word.
And any mention of Trump,the wall, and
illegal immigrants is considers racist by the left.
Overheard a SSU student talking on cell phone:”it was prob someone from the alt-
right”


13 posted on 05/20/2017 2:11:35 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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I see where the word was redacted. We don’t need that.
For 8 years my tagline was: “I don’t oppose Obama because his skin is too brown, but because his ideas are too red”.


14 posted on 05/20/2017 4:20:11 PM PDT by libertylover (In 2016 small-town America got tired of being governed by people who don't know a boy from a girl.)
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To: raccoonradio

I’d bet dollars to donuts whoever the hacker is is NOT a Trump supporter. They seem to be mocking “the great almighty President Trump” and his supprters by posting the way Democrats THINK Republicans speak/think.


15 posted on 05/20/2017 4:23:26 PM PDT by EDINVA
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