Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead 290
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.'"
I refuse to believe it (Score:5, Funny)
Why (Score:3, Funny)
what's the point of hacking fox news to spread disinformation? Just leave them alone and they will do it by themselves.
Re:Not even trying, are we? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, you can tell it's an obvious fake as they call it a "sad day". Fox would never do that.
And congress said... (Score:3, Funny)
no problem, we'll just attach more strings...
Re:HOW? (Score:0, Funny)
This is your corporate account. How does this happen?
I suggest it didn't. They just had to really quickly gin up a "hacker group" to cover their sick joke
It's sad, but what you said rings more true than anything that so-called news organisation comes out with....
Yeah, because perverse leftist political hacks would never do anything like THAT!!! [wikipedia.org]
"Progressives" are SOOO much better than everybody else, right?
And you gotta love progressive "economics", eh? How's that 10% unemployment and looming inflation from out-of-control printing of money doing for you? But don't worry, Obama will make gasoline so expensive it'll be good for the planet! Woo hoo!
Illegal wars? Where have all you "progressives" who lambasted Bush II for his "illegal" war that was actually approved by Congress [wikipedia.org] gone now that we actually have an illegal war in Libya (and how about Hopenchange's lamest-excuse-ever that dropping bombs isn't "hostile". What the FLYING FUCK?!?!?!?!)
When are US troops leaving Iraq?
Shredding the Constitution? Hopenchange makes "progressive" attacks on how unconstititional Bush II was risible. Yet you say nothing as Hopenchange looks to ignore the Constitution, blow right past the debt limit set by Congress, and continue spending trillions of dollars the US Government doesn't have.
Double standard much?
As for those trillions of dollars that Hopenchange is spending, where the flying fuck have you "progressives" who called Bush II deficits "unsustainable" now that Hopenchange is running MONTHLY deficits that are about the same size as the largest Bush II YEARLY deficits? Where the FUCK have you gone?
When will Hopenchange close Gitmo?
Re:HOW? (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah I know, you must have wasted a good half hour reading those unwanted posts but I promise you, the more you read the faster you'll get until eventually it won't be such a big deal. After a mere sentence or two you'll know whether a post is worth reading or not, and it might only take you a second or so. But for now keep working on your words!
Forum rage makes me laugh and wonder exactly how pathetic your life must be.
Re:HOW? (Score:4, Funny)
Burmashave?
Re:false flag! (Score:4, Funny)
So the government is unable to prevent people leaking sensitive diplomatic cables and embarrassing videos and documents yet they can pull off massive false flag operations without a single person leaking the fact that it's a government operation? Umm, yeah right.
Re:I refuse to believe it (Score:4, Funny)
Won't happen anytime soon, following strict Christian Laws they dropped his body over the Atlantic ocean.
Re:false flag! (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.