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Fox News's hacked Twitter feed declares Obama dead
The Guardian ^ | 7/4/11

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: cracker; hacker; jackasses; juvenile; obamanotdead; stupid; unnecessary
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To: markomalley

Wow. Talk about giving the left everything they could have ever asked for.


241 posted on 07/04/2011 7:30:50 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: markomalley

Rats. I was celebrating there for a while, thinking that we would have Joe Biden as president./S


242 posted on 07/04/2011 8:18:03 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Biggirl

Bring It.


243 posted on 07/04/2011 8:18:56 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: kingu
And this will become fodder for tomorrow’s declaration that tea party conservatives especially are violent and racist...

Ironically, it will be found that the hacker is actually into "Sax and Violins"...

244 posted on 07/04/2011 11:26:03 PM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (It's 3 AM. Let me sleep on it. I'll get back to you in 16 hours.)
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To: kingu
And this will become fodder for tomorrow’s declaration that tea party conservatives especially are violent and racist...

Ironically, it will be found that the hacker is actually into "Sax and Violins"...

245 posted on 07/04/2011 11:26:08 PM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (It's 3 AM. Let me sleep on it. I'll get back to you in 16 hours.)
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To: Ann Archy
I tgought Twitter accounts couldn’t be hacked?? Weiner said his was and evryone said it was impossible.

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.

246 posted on 07/05/2011 6:50:20 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: kingu
And this will become fodder for tomorrow’s declaration that tea party conservatives especially are violent and racist...

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.

247 posted on 07/05/2011 6:52:25 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: rawcatslyentist
The thing about death is that, eventually, the prediction will come true.

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.

248 posted on 07/05/2011 8:09:08 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: Ann Archy
Why in the world would Tea Partyers get the blame for this??

Perhaps for the same reason they were blamed for the Giffords shooting in Tucson.

249 posted on 07/05/2011 8:22:46 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Imagine.... a world without islam.)
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To: rawcatslyentist
Another reason the atheistic socialist Democratic Party of America constituents support Pepsico:

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/

250 posted on 07/05/2011 10:33:10 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: tlb
That logo looks like a B2 bomber. Puzzling.

;^)

251 posted on 07/05/2011 2:58:48 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: markomalley

Yet another reason for me to not use or look at Twitter. It has to be one of the worst inventions of modern times.


252 posted on 07/06/2011 4:18:15 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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