“Twitter employees fired by Musk turned out to be pranksters: the media took the prank at face value

In recent days, the main news has been Elon Musk's purchase of the social network Twitter.

Therefore, yesterday the attention of journalists was drawn to the allegedly fired employees of the company, who actually turned out to be pranksters.

What does it mean?

The video shows how near the entrance to the Twitter buildingIn San Francisco, two men are standing with boxes of things. They said they were company employees who had been fired by Musk. Despite some interesting details, major media outlets, including CNBC and Bloomberg, published a video of the interview.

What indicates that this is a hoax?First, one of the men identified himself as a software engineer named Rahul Ligma, which is a reference to a famous joke. Secondly, the characters in the plot said rather strange things: for example, that Michelle Obama would not have been born if Twitter belonged to Musk. Thirdly, there are no and have not been employees with such names in the engineering teams.


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But the most important thing is that Musk himself laughed at the prank, mentioning it in his account.

Let us note that only the “dismissal” of these people turned out to be fake—the former Twitter management was indeed left without a job.