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Fox News: 'Barack Obama assassinated!'
Monday, July 4, 2011 6:10 AM
PIRATENEWS
John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!
Monday, July 4, 2011 9:35 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:Hackers have been celebrating July 4th in their own unique kind of way by taking control of the Fox News Politics Twitter feed and using it declare the death of President Barack Obama. Rest assured, the President remains alive and well. The only dead thing here is Fox News Politics' Twitter password. The hacker (or hackers) took a while to build up steam with their stream of misinformation. The first few messages they posted began with "@BarackObama";, meaning they'd only appear in the timelines of people who follow Fox News and the Presidential account. Later messages changed tactics and used a hashtag. Many people saw through the hoax immediately, but you know what Twitter is like: the hashtag took on a life of its own, and became a meme within minutes. The hoax had added weight thanks to its origin from a professional news organisation, which helped it speed its way on via retweets. At the time of writing, the fake posts were still visible on the compromised Twitter feed, between two and three hours after they'd been posted.
Quote: The tweets have been removed from the feed. FoxNews.com alerted the U.S. Secret Service, which is declining public comment. Jeff Misenti, vice president and general manager of Fox News Digital, said FoxNews.com was working with Twitter to address the situation as quickly as possible. "We will be requesting a detailed investigation from Twitter about how this occurred, and measures to prevent future unauthorized access into FoxNews.com accounts," Misenti said. FoxNews.com regrets any distress the false tweets may have created.
Monday, July 4, 2011 2:10 PM
Quote:Barack Obama assassination shooters will not face charges. Three white supremacists with a sniper rifle and high on drugs who were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver will not face charges even though officials believe that they wanted to assassinate Barack Obama. The spectre of assassination arose in May when Hillary Clinton had to apologise after appearing to suggest that the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968 during his presidential campaign was a good reason for her staying in the race... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4617490.ece
Monday, July 4, 2011 2:18 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Monday, July 4, 2011 2:50 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: It'll be really interesting to see Obama rise from the grave after three days. It all makes perfect sense now.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 2:03 AM
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 2:33 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Still waiting for the staff at FauxNews to resign over this. Yeah, I know - they SAY they were "hacked", but we've all heard that before, right?
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 5:50 AM
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011 8:12 AM
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 8:14 AM
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 8:18 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: So you're confirming that FauxNews and its owner have a history of doing just this kind of thing, right?
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 9:13 AM
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 9:16 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Let's see... this came from FauxNews's official Twitter feed, which is a verified account. It stayed up for more than 10 hours. There's no denying that Fox News claimed that the President had been assassinated. That's a bit harsher than just calling him a dick, but that's exactly how the right wing operates in this country, so it's really not even a surprise that they'd do such a thing. Hell, there's more than likely an e-mail from one of the higher-ups at the network ordering them to do it, like they've done many times before with other matters.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 1:07 PM
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Wednesday, July 6, 2011 1:49 PM
RIONAEIRE
Beir bua agus beannacht
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 1:59 PM
Quote:Originally posted by RionaEire: Quicko, when Jesus died on the cross it went dark outside for most of the day, so it wasn't sunny during most of the dying, if you're going to make fun and try and be clever, get your story right dude.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 2:40 PM
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