BEIJING: China's state broadcaster CCTV News said on Tuesday one of its Twitter accounts had been hacked, and deleted a tweet claiming the country's president had set up a special unit to probe corruption accusations against a former domestic security chief.
The tweet on Monday evening appeared to refer to an article in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post newspaper.
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