In videos circulating on Twitter Friday morning, two men carrying boxes are seen standing near the entrance to Twitter’s San Francisco building, claiming to have been laid off by Elon Musk, who officially took over the company Thursday evening.
There are plenty of problems with what these two men say to reporters. The most glaring is that one man identifies himself as a software engineer named “Rahul Ligma.” The Verge has confirmed that name does not exist in Twitter’s Slack or email system. There is also no evidence that the employee exists on LinkedIn.
“Ligma” is, of course, also an internet hoax designed to elicit the response “lick my balls” from people who are in on the joke. That didn’t stop multiple outlets, including CNBC and Bloomberg, from running headlines Friday saying that laid-off Twitter employees were leaving the building carrying boxes.
Related, somewhat.
CNBC’s article now begins with
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[Editor’s note: After CNBC published details of an interview with people who claimed to be fired employees of Twitter, several reports emerged suggesting it was a hoax. CNBC could not confirm the identities of the individuals.]
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CNBC unable to confirm whether they in fact fell for the oldest trick in the book.
LMFAO. Mr.”Ligma” is good. The Michelle Obama thing was the hook. You could almost hear the gears turning in the interviewer’s head – “Okay, this guy is definitely legit”.
Was the other guy Harry Bofa??
“Comedy is now legal on Twitter” … Elon
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586104694421659648
Seeing a lot of folks posting things like, “There are two genders” and nobody is doing a damn thing about it.
Can’t imagine how entertaining this’ll be the day after the US midterm elections.
Just gold, or Bitcoin, whichever…
For the woke, the fall of Twitter is a crisis. So, how about some crisis actors?
Don’t those crisis actors have a union? Crisis ACTRA?
the main actor is at Harrington Lake , his golddigger wife and spawn nearby
Rumour has it that the RCMP have been dispatched to Trudeau’s hotel room in London. The room where the bathtub had a built in TV.
Steal dossier sources say there was a camera hidden in the TV.
Musk won’t lay anybody off, he needs people to go to Mars. If Trump wins in 2024 he’ll have a flood of applications. All we can do is wish them Gaia speed.