Early this morning the hacked Twitter account of Fox News released a series of false tweets claiming that President Obama had been assassinated.
On the day the American populace celebrate their country’s independence, a group of as yet unidentified hackers broke into Fox News’ Twitter account, subsequently posting a slew of false tweets reporting that President Obama had been assassinated.
The tweets reported that the president had been shot twice at a restaurant in Indiana, they went on to wish Obama’s successor Joe Biden good luck.
The first tweet, which appeared at around 2am PDT read, ” has just passed. The President is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed. President Barack Obama is dead”