Twitter account of China's state broadcaster hacked

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's state broadcaster CCTV News said on Tuesday one of its Twitter accounts had been hacked, and deleted a tweet claiming the country's president had set up a special unit to probe corruption accusations against a former domestic security chief. The tweet on Monday evening appeared to refer to an article in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper. "The CCTV News Twitter account was targeted on October 21 and used illegally to post incorrect information copied from other sources," CCTV said through its English-language Twitter account. ...

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