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Fox News’ Twitter Account Hacked, Hackers Tweet Falsely of Obama Assassination

A group called “The Script Kiddies” claimed responsibility for hacking the @foxnewspolitics account over the weekend, publishing tweets falsely claiming that President Obama had been assassinated. The account has since been suspended and the tweets removed, but here is a screen shot of what they looked like:

Nat Brown is a former deputy Web editor of Foreign Affairs and a former deputy managing editor of National Review Online.
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