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Fake Tweet Claiming Assad Is Dead Affects Oil Markets

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 6, 2012 @10:00AM from the 140-kinds-of-mischief dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apparently someone set up a fake Twitter account under the name of a Russian Foreign Minister and said President Assad of Syria had been hurt/killed. From the article: 'The ministry and the embassy denied the veracity of the report and a message later appeared on the same Twitter account saying "this account is a hoax." It did not say what the aim of the hoax was although it had briefly affected oil markets.'"

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Re:PROFIT! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-06 10:42 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Ha ha you spelled "because" wrong your stupid too!
Re:PROFIT! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-06 11:05 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You're
On a serious note, if a person has to correct a person who is correcting another person, don't you think it's time to loose the grammar nazi act around here? I mean everyone makes mistakes when typing, and its ridiculous to judge someone by a single mistake. I know it makes you feel smarter then those around you, but that doesn't make it true.