- First things first: There were no explosions at the White House, and President Barack Obama is not injured.But that's not what whoever hacked the Associated Press' Twitter account wanted people to think.
Well that was odd.... @AP hacked. pic.twitter.com/lIEvpDnDDMnDDM- That did not happen. The AP then found itself in the unusual position of not only having to report that its primary Twitter feed had been hacked, but having to report on a sudden - and just as suddenly reversed - drop in stock prices that took place after the fake news went public.
URGENT: Wall Street stocks briefly drop, recover, on fake bomb tweetIn this Tuesday, April 16, 2013, photo, Glenn Kessler, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.World stock markets were ...
Market reacts to errant tweet. pic.twitter.com/D8Qkb4lEJelEJe
Dow drops 100 points over a tweet. This is nuts. AP Twitter account hacked, false claim of explosion at White House http://bit.ly/15EzmkR- The false reports of explosions at the White House came barely more than one week after the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three. In the events that followed, some members of the news media and social media users committed serious errors, including incorrect reports that a suspect had been arrested and identifying the wrong individuals as suspects.
It Wasn't Sunil Tripathi: The Anatomy of a Misinformation DisasterIn the middle of the last night's nearly unbelievable turn of events, for a few hours, hundreds of thousands of people received a message...- As much as the vast majority of reporters strive to be accurate, errors are an unavoidable part of a career in the news industry, or simply existing as a human being. The possibility that a hacker could use a respected news agency's social media platform to spread a lie, however, is something new.
Fake Tweet Sends Market VeeringA false tweet briefly sent financial markets veering on Tuesday, in the latest illustration of traders' sensitivity. U.S. stocks and the ...
This whole AP account hack thing is more an argument against the Dow than against Twitter, right?
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"The thing that is not." Hacked AP feed causes brief panic
Whoever hacked the Associated Press' Twitter account on April 23, 2013, and falsely reported explosions at the White House briefly sent stock markets tumbling before the world realized the whole thing was a hoax.
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