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Dow takes brief but steep fall after false AP tweet
The Dow Jones Industrials dropped 144 and recovered it in minutes a little after 1 p.m. when a false tweet about explosions at the White House went out over the Associated Press' Twitter feed.
Before disabling its account, the Associated Press said in a subsequent Tweet that its account had been hacked.
"All: The main @AP Twitter account has been hacked, The tweets coming out of there are false. We are working to correct the problem," the Associated Press Twitter feed said.
Read more:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...ll-after-false-tweet-20130423,0,4620138.story
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The Dow Jones Industrials dropped 144 and recovered it in minutes a little after 1 p.m. when a false tweet about explosions at the White House went out over the Associated Press' Twitter feed.
Before disabling its account, the Associated Press said in a subsequent Tweet that its account had been hacked.
"All: The main @AP Twitter account has been hacked, The tweets coming out of there are false. We are working to correct the problem," the Associated Press Twitter feed said.
Read more:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...ll-after-false-tweet-20130423,0,4620138.story
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