A pair of pranksters impersonating laid-off Twitter employees fooled several foreign media on Friday as the public anxiously awaited whether new owner Elon Musk would start laying off employees
According to the New York Post CNBC reporter Deirdre Bosa interviewed two people near the company's headquarters in San Francisco who were carrying cardboard boxes and identified themselves as fired Twitter employees.
One of the pranksters said his name was "Rahul Ligma" (Rahul Ligma - a popular meme online) and was holding a copy of Michelle Obama's book Becoming. The other said his name was "Daniel Johnson."
The CNBC, Bloomberg, n Daily Mail and its NBC were among the reputable news outlets that immediately reported that there were layoffs underway…! "It's happening now," tweeted CNBC's Bosa. The entire engineering team leaves the building. These are two from that group.
You still can watch the interview video of pranksters on the official Reuters YouTube stream (titled “LIVE: Outside Twitter HQ in San Francisco after Elon Musk takes over”)
Elon Musk, who upon taking over the company changed his Twitter profile title to “chief Twit,” responded on Friday afternoon by tweeting “Ligma Johnson was here"
On a more serious note, Musk also wrote on Twitter on Friday, that the company “will form a content oversight board with widely differing opinions. No major decisions on content or account reactivations will be made prior to the convening of this board."
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