Shortly after 1 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday of last week, the Twitter account of the Associated Press sent out a message saying the White House had been bombed and President Obama was injured.
Panic struck. The stock market reacted as you might expect. There was a 150-point drop and a better than 1% intra-day gain in the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA -0.02% suddenly became a 1% loss.
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