http://www.pcworld.com/article/235018/fox_twitter_account_hacked_claims_obama_shot_in_iowa.html
Somebody was trying to spread good cheer.
"The Twitter account for Fox News was apparently hacked, with six tweets falsely reporting early Monday morning that U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot twice in an Iowa restaurant while campaigning.
The tweets were posted between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Eastern Time by the "foxnewspolitics" account. The account has a badge with a checkmark that means it has been verified by Twitter for authenticity.
National media outlets in the U.S., including Fox News itself, carried no such reports. Fox News ran a story on its website acknowledging the hack, saying it "regrets any distress the false tweets may have created." The false tweets came on a major U.S. holiday, Independence Day.
The first tweet about the assassination -- addressed directly to Obama's real account -- said "@BarackObama has just passed. The President is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed. President Barack Obama is dead."
Subsequent tweets said that Obama had been shot twice in the lower pelvic area and the neck and that he later died from his wounds, with the shooter unknown."
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