Burger King, McDonalds and Trump old X posts hijacked with offensive links

A massive link-hijacking scheme has turned corporate social media archives into bizarre and offensive redirects.Posts from high-profile accounts — including fast-food giants McDonald’s and Burger King, as well as President Donald Trump — are getting hacked, with over decades-old links suddenly redirecting users to unrelated website links including links about 9/11 and the Holocaust.An unknown party appears to be taking control of expired Bitly link shorteners—a widely used URL-shortening and link-management service—and altering their destinations.Bitly is used to shorten, share, track, and brand web links, converting long website addresses into short clean links.One 2011 post on Burger King’s official X account (1.8 million followers) that originally pointed to a restaurant locator was modified Sunday to redirect to a Wikipedia page detailing Nazi concentration camps.Another Burger King tweet from July 13, 2011 — reading, “Now it’s even easier to eat right at BURGER KING restaurants with @WeRRestaurants.All you need is a zip code!” — was warped to link straight to Adolf Hitler’s Wikipedia page.It remains unclear how the shortened links across the corporate accounts were hijacked.

Burger King told The Post that one of the altered posts has been yanked, though another remains live on their account.McDonald’s official X handle was similarly slammed.A deleted post from Aug.

6, 2011, was tampered with to point to the Wikipedia page for the Sept.11 terrorist attacks, fitting a bizarre emerging pattern of corporate links pointing to historical tragedies.McDonald’s and Bitly did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Post.Two posts on Donald Trump’s X account were also altered: a 2013 post redirected to a “Baby Fortnite” page, while a 2012 post linked to a video of Mario and Luigi from Super Mario Bros.About 20 of Trump’s old X posts have been affected by link switches, all attached to this thread, including links to ...