Fake Onion Tweets Prompt Scare at US Capitol

The Onion seems to have registered a rare misfire in the joke department. It set off a scare at the US Capitol this morning with a fake tweet reading, “BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building,” reports the Washington Post . A few others in a similar vein…

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Fake Onion Tweets Prompt Scare at US Capitol

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