‘Hear Me Now, for I Speak as an Angel in the Words of God’
The New York Post is one of two top NYC-based tabloids, and among the most-widely circulated newspapers in the country. Owned by Rupert Murdoch, the man who owns Fox News among many other media outlets around the world, the Post is solidly in Donald Trump’s corner. They publish stories most wouldn’t normally see anywhere else, like these:
So when the Post’s mobile app was hacked Saturday night, one almost has to wonder, how many noticed? After all, the first alert read, “Heil President Donald Trump!”
But as more alerts came across uses’ cell phones, it was obvious something was wrong.
“Hear me now, for I speak as an angel in the words of God,” read the next alert. “In casting truth into the darkness of your shadow, you have gravely sinned,†read another.
The Hill notes one of the alerts included a (misquoted) line from Nirvana’s “Come As You Are.”
The Post soon apologized, saying their system had been “compromised.”
Disgustingly, not everyone was upset:
(In case you were wondering, Pepe the Frog has become the symbol for white supremacists, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis.)
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