{"id":83120,"date":"2015-01-17T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=83120"},"modified":"2015-01-16T19:34:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T19:34:39","slug":"pope-announces-start-world-war-iii-media-twitter-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=83120","title":{"rendered":"Pope announces start of World War III in media Twitter hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter accounts of United Press International and the <em>New York Post<\/em> were hacked on Friday afternoon, tweeting that the U.S. and China had begun a war at sea, and that Pope Francis had announced the start of World War III.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BREAKING: Chinese anti-ship missile fired at USS George Washington,&#8221; the accounts tweeted. UPI followed that &#8220;report&#8221; up with the news that the U.S. navy was &#8220;engaged in active combat against Chinese vessels in South China sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83125\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/NY-Post-Twitter-China.jpg\" alt=\"NY-Post-Twitter-China\" width=\"434\" height=\"173\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Neither of those claims, it seems, are true.<\/p>\n<p>The UPI account then tweeted a photo of the Pope declaring, &#8220;World War III has begun,&#8221; followed by a tweet that said the Bank of America CEO had called for calm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-83122\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Pope-UPI.jpg\" alt=\"Pope-UPI\" width=\"450\" height=\"476\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em>, meanwhile, was actively deleting the tweets from its page.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Gray, Sunday business editor at the <em>Post<\/em>, tweeted shortly thereafter that the newspaper&#8217;s account was hacked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Twitter feed had been hacked,&#8221; he said. The claim was repeated on the <em>Post<\/em>&#8216;s business-oriented Twitter account @nypostbiz, although it was later deleted, and replaced with more hacked tweets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some Twitter accounts for UPI have been hacked. We are urgently working to resolve this issue with @support,&#8221; UPI tweeted from its U.S. news and photos accounts.<\/p>\n<p>When <em>The Daily Beast<\/em>&#8216;s Nancy Youssef told senior Pentagon staffers about claims that the U.S. and China were at war, they sarcastically replied, \u201cOh really? We are?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter accounts of United Press International and the New York Post were hacked on Friday afternoon, tweeting that the U.S. and China had begun a war at sea, and that Pope Francis had announced the start of World War III. &#8220;BREAKING: Chinese anti-ship missile fired at USS George Washington,&#8221; the accounts tweeted. UPI followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,14],"class_list":["post-83120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}