The Twitter account for Fox News was apparently hacked, with six tweets falsely reporting early Monday morning that U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot twice in an Iowa restaurant while campaigning.
The tweets were posted between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Eastern Time by the "foxnewspolitics" account. The account has a badge with a checkmark that means it has been verified by Twitter for authenticity.
National media outlets in the U.S., including Fox News itself, carried no such reports. Fox News ran a story on its website acknowledging the hack, saying it "regrets any distress the false tweets may have created." The false tweets came on a major U.S. holiday, Independence Day.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218113/
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The tweets were posted between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Eastern Time by the "foxnewspolitics" account. The account has a badge with a checkmark that means it has been verified by Twitter for authenticity.
National media outlets in the U.S., including Fox News itself, carried no such reports. Fox News ran a story on its website acknowledging the hack, saying it "regrets any distress the false tweets may have created." The false tweets came on a major U.S. holiday, Independence Day.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218113/
