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Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead

Frankie70 writes with word of a Twitter-account hijacking that's raised eyebrows today, supplying a link to the account in question. From the Telegraph's account: "'The Twitter account of the American Fox News Politics team was compromised and used to falsely announce the death of the U.S. president. Hackers, who identified themselves as 'The Script Kiddies' and said they shared the spirit of prominent hacking group Anonymous, used the account to write: 'BREAKING NEWS: President @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP.'"

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  1. I refuse to believe it by imadork · · Score: 5, Funny

    until I see the long form death certificate....

    1. Re:I refuse to believe it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Won't happen anytime soon, following strict Christian Laws they dropped his body over the Atlantic ocean.

  2. Re:Not even trying, are we? by KDR_11k · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, you can tell it's an obvious fake as they call it a "sad day". Fox would never do that.

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  3. Re:false flag! by Jeremi · · Score: 5, Funny

    The government knows that the riots will begin soon in the US, and they are trying to set things up to make it hard to communicate. Beware.

    Of course the most insidious part of the government's plan was the pre-planting of paranoid conspiracy theories on all the major tech sites, so that when the time came, the Internet's system operators would turn on each other in a ferocious bloodbath of nerd terror.

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