Multibillionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter continues to make headlines. Certain American reporters don’t exactly cover themselves with fame.
Videos circulating on Twitter since Friday morning show two men carrying boxes at the entrance to Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. The two claimed to have been fired by Musk.
The problem: They were “pranksters”, ie pranksters who performed themselves in front of the cameras. One of the men posed as a software engineer by the name of “Rahul Ligma” – a reference to an internet hoax popular in the United States. And the man held up a copy of Michelle Obama’s book Becoming as he spoke to a CNBC reporter.
Several well-known English-language media houses fell for the joke: in addition to CNBC, Bloomberg, the Daily Mail and broadcaster NBC also reported that layoffs were underway after the prankster duo spoke into the microphones of the assembled journalists.
The new Twitter boss later – as expected – joked about the incident via Twitter.
