Czech PM Fiala's X account attacked with fake posts

PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala's social media account was attacked from abroad and fake posts apppeared on Tuesday, including about a Russian attack on Czech soldiers, a government office spokesperson said, adding the police were investigating.

A post, saying in Czech that Russian forces had attacked Czech units near the Kaliningrad border, was not true and removed from Fiala's X account, spokesperson Lucie Michut Jesatkova said in a text message to Reuters.

Posts in Czech and English about responding to U.S. tariffs were also taken down, and regular posts on the account, which has 366,700 followers, have since been posted, the spokesperson said.

(Reporting by Jan Lopatka, writing by Jason Hovet, editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Barbara Lewis)

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