This hack could absolutely get people killed. There are several tweets I can think of from POTUS that would begin immediate military mobilization from an unfriendly country.
what's going on there, the fact it was a draft tweet - is the implication that north korea can read his draft tweets before they are posted? or could at the time?
That’s a scenario I find much less likely than the hundreds of Trump tweets that would set off domestic violence within minutes.
If Trump would tweet what the fringe communities want to hear (example: Trump tweets that state law enforcement have started rounding up people with Hawaii shirts and confiscating their weapons and should be seen as enemy combatants and engaged on sight. That would turn ugly very quickly).
A well crafted tweet about e.g the Taliban could easily put US soldiers abroad in harms way immediately too.
I think you’re overestimating the number of people in the US who would actually respond decisively to something like that. But it’s more than zero, unfortunately, which is too many.
It would with Trump - because we know his diplomacy runs through Twitter. With other presidents like Obama or Bush (did Twitter exist back then?) I would expect the risk is lower.
