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 was interviewed by two people near the company's headquarters in San Francisco carrying cardboard boxes and identifying themselves as fired Twitter employees.
One of the pranksters said his name was "Rahul Ligma" (Rahul Ligma - a popular meme on Internet) 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 NBC were among the reputable news outlets that immediately reported that there were fromsolutions into a development…! "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."
