People Lost Their Minds When These Popular Websites Went Down

Newsweek Crash Blamed on Russian Hackers

Source: Newsweek

When Newsweek’s website crashed in September 2016, people blamed Donald Trump once again. After all, the site went down shortly after it published an article on how the billionaire’s company secretly conducted business in Cuba in the 1990s. After the story went live, some people believe Russian hackers took the website down as “payback.” And, yes, you guessed it — conspiracy theories soon took over Twitter.

Newsweek website was taken down shortly after coming out with the Trump story taken down by the Russians

— marc j victor (@marcjvictor1) October 1, 2016

Russian hackers take down website of Newsweek. Trump called Putin at 2am…the reason he was up and tweeting at 3am. Bromance still strong!

— JC (@CivilScream) October 1, 2016

Russian hackers brought down Newsweek’s website after the they came out with Eichenwald’s article about Trump!? Hmmmm

— kevin martin (@kevinmartin823) October 1, 2016