How convenient. Update to this story.
Via Fortune:
CNN said on Wednesday that someone hacked the Twitter account of cable news anchor Anderson Cooper and insulted Donald Trump in a response to one of the president’s tweets about last night’s senate race in Alabama.
The post in question, which has been deleted, called Trump a “pathetic loser” after Republican candidate Roy Moore, who had Trump’s endorsement, lost to Democrat Doug Jones in yesterday’s U.S. Senate special election.
A few hours ago, Cooper tweeted from his account to say that he “just woke up to find out someone gained access to my Twitter account,” with the CNN anchor adding that he had not previously posted anything on Twitter since the weekend.[…]
CNN posted a statement from the Time Warner-owned network’s public relations Twitter account, noting that “someone gained access to the handle @andersoncooper” in order to send the tweet in question. “We’re working with Twitter to secure the account,” CNN said.[…]
UPDATE: A CNN spokesman told Fortune that “geolocation tools” prove the tweet was not sent by Anderson Cooper, who was in Washington, D.C. when the tweet was sent in New York from a phone belonging to the news anchor’s assistant. “His assistant inadvertently left his phone unlocked and unattended at the gym early this morning, and someone took the phone and sent the tweet,” CNN said. “His assistant, who has worked with Anderson for more than a decade, is the only other person with access to Anderson’s Twitter account.”