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The official account for Ford Motor Company on X was apparently compromised in a hacking incident behind a viral post calling Israel a “terrorist state.”

In a statement posted Monday evening, Ford said its X account was “briefly compromised” and several unauthorized posts were shared.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 121 points 5 days ago (18 children)

Henry Ford is one of the few Americans to be awarded a Nazi medal...

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/henry-ford-grand-cross-1938/

So the company does have a strong history of supporting fascists and genocide.

So yeah, it was probably a hack

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 47 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And while Henry Ford is gone, the USA's richest and most powerful industrialists are still Nazis.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The wealthy and powerful are always attracted to fascism because fascist leaders always want their wealth and power behind the movement.

It's like how cults go after Hollywood celebrities or senile old rich people.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 14 points 5 days ago

Deep down they know that the "capitalist status quo" is not sustainable, working class will eventually figure our that we are being seriously fucked over.

Owner class will not provide concessions to the working class on principle out of spite.

So their only option is to go fascist, front run the plebs!

PS. FDR saved US last time, I doubt we will get another one.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Car manufacturers have some kind of hard on for Nazism. In the past we had Ford. Now we have Elon..

There might be a relation to workers creating unions and their CEO's love for Fascism.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Pretty much every major global leader in industry has direct ties to Nazis.

From 3m and basf to vw to Bayer to your friendly frozen pizza brand Dr oetker.

All Nazis.

All the way down.

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Explains why BASF took racist allegations so seriously when my dad worked for them...

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 5 days ago

Porsche family still owns substantial stake in VW and they the definition of a nazi nepo baby family.

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[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 83 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ya they were hacked, but no lies were told.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

There are a lot of eyes not on Gaza

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Imagine actually calling Twitter "X".

Serves them right for still being on Twitter.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 5 days ago (1 children)

odd since historically ford is known for being PRO genocide.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But con Jews. A real conundrum.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 26 points 5 days ago

Sweaty-guy-choosing-which-button-to-press.jpg

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Henry would've been proud!

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Henry didn't care about Arab states so much as wanted to import them to be his cheap labor. He hated Jews but I'm sure he would've preferred gazans to be refugees so they'd work in his factories for nothing.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago (2 children)

"Hack"

I call it a disgruntled employee on their way out.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 15 points 5 days ago

That's some direct action... I hope he or she does not get exposed since anti Israeli sentiment under your own name will be punished by the system.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

That's a very plausible theory actually.

[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

Lol get hacked idiot

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Ford being based rn

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

Might be time for Ford to get in on 2FA.

hack them agian immediately after

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

Hackers stating facts, nice!

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Companies are still using Twitter accounts? Why?

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why?

200 million daily users probably. Even if half are bots that's still a ton of users.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

2/3rds were bots before half the users left. Now it's 4/3 all bots.

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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago
[–] kikutwo@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

What's not a terrorist State with bombing children, aid workers, commandeering hospital facilities etc.?

[–] mukt@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What kind of hack incident?

A truthful one.

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