Fox News Twitter Account Hacked, Declares President Obama Dead On Independence Day

Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) is a verified account on Twitter with over thirty thousand followers.

The profile tweets in Fox’s normal way, sharing news and updates about the Presidency and politics, albeit with the network’s usual right-of-center bias.

And it’s that bias that will inevitably make the reaction to this news more severe. About 3 hours ago, @foxnewspolitics was hacked. Worse, they’ve written a series of tweets about President Obama being killed, and those messages have spread rapidly throughout the Twittersphere.

It appears the hijackers first took control of the @foxnewspolitics account at or around 1.56

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