Wendi Deng, wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, started out the year by discovering that her name had been hijacked by a spoofer on Twitter. Twitter had apparently verified the account, “Wendi_Deng,” as genuine, but after being informed it was a hoax, quickly removed it and apologized to Deng. There have been other such incidents in the past — notably in 2010, when a spoofer sent out mocking tweets under BP’s name, @BPGlobalPR, during the height of the oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Wendy Deng and Twitter's Tenuous Hold on the Truth
Posted by: Erika Morphy January 4, 2012 09:34 AMWendi Deng, wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, started out the year by discovering that her name had been hijacked by a spoofer on Twitter. Twitter had apparently verified the account, “Wendi_Deng,” as genuine, but after being informed it was a hoax, quickly removed it and apologized to Deng. There have been other such incidents in the past — notably in 2010, when a spoofer sent out mocking tweets under BP’s name, @BPGlobalPR, during the height of the oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.