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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Wow. Talk about giving the left everything they could have ever asked for.
Rats. I was celebrating there for a while, thinking that we would have Joe Biden as president./S
Bring It.
Ironically, it will be found that the hacker is actually into "Sax and Violins"...
Ironically, it will be found that the hacker is actually into "Sax and Violins"...
IIRC, nobody said it was impossible; but a lot of people indicated that it was extremely unlikely given the circumstances (or the circumstantial evidence available). Sort of like the Rathgate memos; nobody said it was impossilbe for the superscript in the memos, but a lot of people said it was highly unlikely that a general would have known how to change the printing wheel on an IBM Selectric typewriter, let alone taken the time to change it to print those superscript characters.
That would be a pretty STUPID conjecture. First of all, if it were tea party conservatives then they wouldn't hack the Fox News Twitter account; they would have hacked the CNN and PMSNBC twitter accounts.
I hope that an urban legend spreads about Pepsi wishing ill upon President Obama, and all of those idiot Hopey-Changeys who switched to Pepsi because of the company's sycophantic pro-Obama logo desert the cola in droves.
Perhaps for the same reason they were blamed for the Giffords shooting in Tucson.
Pro-Life Groups: Boycott Pepsi for Using Aborted Fetal Cell Lines
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/05/25/pro-life-groups-boycott-pepsi-for-using-aborted-fetal-cell-lines/
;^)
Yet another reason for me to not use or look at Twitter. It has to be one of the worst inventions of modern times.
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