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Czech PM Fiala's X account attacked with fake posts
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on April 8, 2025
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on April 8, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
Czech PM Petr Fiala's social media account was hacked, spreading false claims about a Russian attack on Czech soldiers. The posts were removed swiftly.
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala's X social media account was attacked on Tuesday morning, with fake posts appearing, including about a Russian attack on Czech soldiers, a government office spokesperson said.
"The post about the attack on Czech soldiers is not true," spokesperson Lucie Michut Jesatkova said in a text message to Reuters.
That post, saying in Czech that Russian forces had attacked Czech units near the Kaliningrad border, was later removed.
Posts in Czech and English about responding to U.S. tariffs were also removed from Fiala's account, which has 366,700 followers.
(Reporting by Jan Lopatka, writing by Jason Hovet, editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
The main topic is the hacking of Czech PM Petr Fiala's social media account and the spread of fake posts.
False claims included a Russian attack on Czech soldiers near the Kaliningrad border.
A government spokesperson confirmed the posts were fake and they were removed from the account.
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