This Is Not a Joke: The Onion Hacked by Syrians

Parody site responds with parody

Hackers seized The Onion's Twitter feed on Monday, posting anti-Israel and pro-Syrian government messages to the parody news site's nearly 5 million followers.

Though the incident recalled The Onion's 2009 parody in which it claimed to be under Chinese state ownership, The Onion and The New York Times reported that the attack was indeed real. The satirical news site is the latest to be targeted by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army.

The group of hackers, sympathetic to President Bashar al-Assad's regime, claims responsibility for defacing news sites—including Al Jazeera and NPR—that it considers to be hostile to the Syrian government.

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