Fox News Twitter account hacked. Tweets about Obama's assassination appear online.

Courtesy of PC World:

That is a disgusting thing to post, and I certainly do not see the humor in it.

I dislike Fox News as much as anybody, but this kind of crap is uncalled for, and joking that our President has been killed is completely indefensible.

Fortunately it appears that most people understood what was happening.

It's unclear if Fox News has control of its hacked Twitter account. The Fox News Politics homepage shows no mention of the hack, but the site did post a message alerting its reader to the false reports.

Despite the false reports coming out of the Fox News Politics Twitter account, online readers appear to be savvy enough to understand the messages are fakes and used the incident to lampoon Fox. In response to one of the false messages that read, "The President is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed." Twitter user heydarguise said," Obviously thats fake tweet. Fox news would not be sad at passing of obama. IT would be party tyme."