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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Wed Jul 29, 2015, 10:03 PM Jul 2015

Hacked Confederate Facebook Group Becomes Tribute to LGBT Rights, Obama, Judaism

Virgil Texas ... announced that he’d joined a private “Confederate Pride” Facebook group that had left some of its settings unlocked. He then appears to have surreptitiously changed its header picture a few times as a ruse before convincing the group’s administrators to give him the authority to change all its settings in order to “clean out all the trolls” who had been changing the header ... Then he changed the Confederate pride group into the “LGBT Southerners for Michelle Obama and Judaism” group

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/29/confederate_flag_pride_facebook_group_hijacked_michelle_obama_and_multi.html


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Hacked Confederate Facebook Group Becomes Tribute to LGBT Rights, Obama, Judaism (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2015 OP
As much as some may applaud this, I find there hijacking of Facebook groups childish and immature davidpdx Jul 2015 #1
Childish Reter Jul 2015 #2
Awwww shenmue Jul 2015 #3
Poor anyone who has ever been hacked Reter Jul 2015 #5
Okay, click shenmue Jul 2015 #6
I guess you can't see a compliment without a smiley face Reter Jul 2015 #7
Well... 2naSalit Jul 2015 #4
I can't really condone this type of thing but I can't help laughing. drm604 Jul 2015 #8

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
1. As much as some may applaud this, I find there hijacking of Facebook groups childish and immature
Wed Jul 29, 2015, 10:31 PM
Jul 2015

I've seen it done to groups that I have belonged to in the past. What that person did was expel all the people who were part of the group and invite their friends in. Unfortunately there is no mechanism to "undo" it once it happens. The only thing that can be done is to literally start a new group and try to get members to join.

 

Reter

(2,188 posts)
5. Poor anyone who has ever been hacked
Wed Jul 29, 2015, 11:05 PM
Jul 2015

I would rip into you if your name wasn't shenmue, so you get pass. Next forum just use a capital "S" though. Does disservice to the game.

 

Reter

(2,188 posts)
7. I guess you can't see a compliment without a smiley face
Thu Jul 30, 2015, 12:00 AM
Jul 2015

I said I was a big fan of the game, complimented your screen name, and said with ant invisible smile to next time use a capital S, just because it's that good. Misinterpretation gets ignore? I ignore no one, to me it's kinda like retreat but to each their own.

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