While you were sleeping, a message with a swastika took over Twitter

[Sunlei]

Source: Boston Globe

A strange tweet beginning with a swastika and containing hashtags saying “Nazi Germany” and “Nazi Holland” made the rounds early Wednesday morning.

The tweet was sent thousands of times from numerous high-profile accounts of brands, businesses, and public figures, including Worcester State University and Polar Seltzer. In a 5:36 a.m. e-mail to the Globe, a Twitter spokesman said a third-party application was to blame for the hack.

A third hashtag in the message, which comes after a hand emoji, is Turkish for “Ottoman slap,” a legendary and perhaps apocryphal Turkish martial arts technique as well as a popular TV show. The message ends with the admonition, “Learn Turkish.”

A few of the later tweets replaced the Erdogan video with an image of an apparently Turkish man sitting at a computer, a video of the “Turkish Gummy Bear Song,” or an old panel from a Donald Duck comic strip. The cartoon image shows an organ grinder’s monkey operating a device below a word balloon that reads, “Here, breathe in some cyanide gas.” Nearby, Donald Duck reclines in an armchair and responds, “Thank you, Jesus.”



Read more: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/03/15/possible-twitter-hack-hits-accounts-local-and-worldwide/5KaBMS4IF7OEOQwNUooZaN/story.html

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another election swayed because of propagandathrough social media bots.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Hundreds of Twitter Accounts Hacked with Swastikas Through Third Party App 'Twitter Counter'

The tweets are in Turkish and include the words “Nazi Germany” and “Nazi Holland,” presumably in reference to the elections in the Netherlands and the recent diplomatic conflicts between Turkey and the Netherlands. The hackers are posting a link to a YouTube video and the Twitter account sebomubu.

As Rob Lopez has pointed out on Twitter, the attack appears to be coming through a vulnerability in the third party app called Twitter Counter. So if you’ve ever used that service, you should go to “Settings and Privacy” and click on the “Apps” section. There you’ll be able to disable the third-party access to Twitter Counter. And you may as well disable third party access to everything else until we confirm every service that’s currently vulnerable.
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The hack is incredibly widespread, affecting verified accounts like Amnesty International, some celebrities, and soccer stars.


People are keeping tabs on all of the accounts getting hacked by monitoring the hashtags: #Nazialmanya and #Nazihollanda.

http://gizmodo.com/twitter-accounts-hacked-with-swastikas-through-third-pa-1793286451

BBC North America also hit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-39277950

[Sunlei]

5. That nazi youtube looks so similar to the one that shutdown DU for several days. Twitter should stop

Twitter should stop allowing spam tweets to help slow down those automated script bots. AND start charging all businesses per tweet including mass media businesses.

[ProfessorPlum]

2. Were these tweets pro or anti Nazi? Hard to tell from the descriptions

Not that the fact that twitter's security seems to be complete swiss cheese is very comforting.

[ToxMarz]

3. I think to some, any Nazi News is Good Nazi News.

[ProfessorPlum]

6. you're probably right

but if I were in the Netherlands and saw "NaziHolland" that would freak me the f* out. Holland was actually pretty awesome in resisting the 3rd Reich, weren't they?

[Sunlei]

4. In European countries many of their citizens hate immigrants more every year.

It's worse today for immigrants/refugees, there have been thousands of attacks on them even in their homes.

What those tweets do is effect elections, destabilize democracy, help sway the votes for people with similar 'moral values' as t(R)ump & his religion ban.

What I predict is Russia/Assad government have about 2 million 'prisoners' in their death camp prisons in Syria. They'll open the prison doors soon and send out another flood of thousands of 'refugees' on the world. People with serious health issues. They have already 'got rid of', exterminated about 6 million people.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Anti-Nazi, but mainly Anti-Dutch. Because the Dutch stopped Turkish politicians campaigning

in the Netherlands about the Turkish referendum to give Erdogan still more power, Erdogan and his supporters have taken to calling the Dutch Nazis.

[ProfessorPlum]

8. Thank you for the explanation

I thought this was some comment about Geert Wilders or something.

If it is Erdogan's goons complaining, then I'm less worried about that. More worried about Twitter's security, though.

[snooper2]

9. a tweet swayed an election?

really?