{"id":110955,"date":"2011-07-05T13:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T08:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=110955"},"modified":"2011-07-05T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T08:44:40","slug":"us-secret-service-to-probe-obama-death-hoax-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/07\/05\/us-secret-service-to-probe-obama-death-hoax-on-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"US Secret Service to Probe Obama Death Hoax on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Service said Monday it would investigate the hacking of Fox&#8217;s political Twitter account over updates falsely claiming that US President Barack Obama had been assassinated, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-0705-fox-twitter-hacked-20110705,0,842627.story\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">reports the Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Secret Service spokesperson George Ogilvie said the law enforcement agency, whose job it is to protect the president, would look into the false postings and &#8220;conduct the appropriate follow-up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on its website, Fox News called the tweets &#8220;malicious&#8221; and &#8220;false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be requesting a detailed investigation from Twitter about how this occurred and measures to prevent future unauthorized access into FoxNews.com accounts,&#8221; said Jeff Misenti, vice president and general manager of Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret Service said Monday it would investigate the hacking of Fox&#8217;s political Twitter account over updates falsely claiming that US President&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16057,29204,29205,29206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}