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Hackers claim Fox News’ Twitter account, report fake Obama shooting
- deleted 15y ago[deleted]
- vijaydev 15y agohttps://twitter.com/#!/foxnewspolitics https://twitter.com/#!/foxnewspolitics
- knowtheory 15y agoLooking at their at replies is really much more interesting. But unfortunately http://realtime.google.com http://realtime.google.com seems to have been rejiggered and links to a 404 now :(
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoIt's really not pretty. As much as I find Fox News getting hacked funny, I find claiming an assassination not funny.
- Jach 15y agoIt's kind of a weird tweet to make, perhaps they wanted to see the rejoicers come out of the woodworks? I agree the assassination claim isn't very funny, there are way more hilarious things they could have done.
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoI think it's a misguided attempt at being funny / shocking which you find funny when you're doing it (just because the act of posting to a Fox twitter account is funny) but isn't. I agree though, there are loads of things that might have been funny they could have gone with announce Rupert Murdoch is endorsing Palin or that Bachmann has come out for gay marriage. There are plenty of things which aren't offensive and might actually linger as rumours or stories a bit longer than something where people have an obvious reason to rapidly falsify it.
- sambeau 15y agoNot cool. Shame on them.
- stretchwithme 15y agoEven if he were killed, it would be impossible to prove to that audience.
- vidiviciveni 15y agoGood point. Also Poe's law seems more pervasive than ever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
- tintin 15y agoI agree in a way, but would it be possible to prove anything then?
- nhangen 15y agoThat sort of comment really isn't necessary. Rise above that.
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- nhebb 15y agoTweeting the the President of the United States has been shot isn't lighthearted mischievousness. I don't know if they thought this would make Fox News look bad or themselves look clever, but it doesn't do either. All it does is make the Script Kiddies look immature, which I guess makes their name tautological, but I do hope they grow up to be better people than this.
- JulianMorrison 15y agoI hope they covered their tracks very well, because the Secret Service really does not have a sense of humour about that sort of thing.
- georgefox 15y agoSee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_the_President_of_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_the_President_of_th.... I don't know that this quite falls under the same category, but it certainly doesn't seem like a good idea.
- lachyg 15y agoThe one thing that continues to surprise me is that this still hasn't been removed!
- rglover 15y agoSo, what's the motivation behind something like this? Are there really people who believe this is funny, let alone cool (the twitter bragging is a bit amateur)? I'm not a fan of Fox News either, but this is not how you handle your distaste for someone. Did enjoy that they misspelled imminent as 'imitate.' Can't wait to read the follow-up where these guys get busted.
- clintjhill 15y agoWouldn't it be awesome if one of these days these kinds of hackers actually did something that improved the world?
- glhaynes 15y agoSuch opportunity for subtle funny trolling and they did this instead. Maybe someday the person behind @PeanutFreeMom will hack Fox News. Until then, we can only dream.