Fox News Twitter Account Hijacked, President Obama Declared Dead
Follow @neilhimself @neilhimself Neil Gaiman And I guess if you're going to hack @ foxnewspolitics you might as well announce the assassination of President Obama. Why think small? about 20 hours ago via TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite There’s nothing even remotely amusing about this: some stupid kids – actual age unknown – have taken over the (verified) @FoxNewsPolitics Twitter account and posted a series of messages declaring U.S. President Barack Obama dead on the eve of the Fourth of July, the national day of the United States. The ‘hackers’ appear to have taken over the account around 2 AM Eastern time, and went on to claim President Obama was shot twice at an Iowa restaurant, that he passed away soon thereafter, and that the shooter’s identity was unknown. By the time this post was published, the account had seen no tweets for a couple of hours, but neither was it suspended or were any of the fake reports deleted, so whoever gained access to the Twitter account may still...