The Secret Service said Monday it will investigate the hacking of Fox’s political Twitter account over updates claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated.
Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie says the law enforcement agency whose job it is to protect the president will conduct a probe of the false postings and that “we will conduct the appropriate follow-up.”
Hackers broke into the FoxNewsPolitics account early Monday, leaving a series of six tweets reporting that Obama had been shot to death in Iowa and the shooter was unknown.
In a statement posted on its website, Fox News called the tweets “malicious” and “false.”
“We will be requesting a detailed investigation from Twitter about how this occurred, and measures to prevent future unauthorized access into FoxNews.com accounts,” said Jeff Misenti, vice president and general manager of Fox News Digital.
Obama is spending the Independence Day holiday at a barbecue at the White House with military families and administration staffers.
Fox’s political Twitter account has more than 34,000 followers.
(Source: Politico)
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If only it were true!
#1, You are over the line! DONT YOU EVER TALK LIKE THAT!!!!
I despise Obama’s socialist leanings as much as any other sane individual who isnt out there drinking the Obama Kool Aid but one thing i would NEVER want is what the story describes. I wasnt around for JFK but I was around when Reagan was shot. The country didn’t know what to do with itself. Read up on the JFK assassination and see what we went through as a nation.
He may be tied for the worst president with Wilson, FDR, and Carter but YOU MAY NOT TALK LIKE THAT … EVER!!
(Can someone please head over to CharlieHall’s, YonasanW’s, or nfgo3’s home and offer them some CPR?!!?!? They probably need it right about now!)
mark levin, just because your a talk show host doesn’t give you the right to tell me what to do!!!!!!!!!!!