Fox News has been the victim of a sickening Twitter account hacking, when its @foxnewspoliics twitter feed began announcing that Presiden Obama had been shot dead.
The rogue news rapidly spread around the web, with news services scrambling to confirm the news, however it quickly became apparent that the story was a hoax.
Sceptics quickly identified that the hacker was not using the language expected from a journalist,
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