Media Shops Pranked By Bogus Twitter Worker Laments – Deadline

Someplace on the market, Heywood Jablome and Pat McGroyne are laughing. Positively not laughing: CNBC, Bloomberg, ABC7-Information within the Bay Space, and different media retailers duped by two Merry Pranksters outdoors the Twitter workplaces at present.

Two males carrying cardboard containers had been interviewed outdoors the Twitter workplaces at present, bemoaning their destiny as laid-off victims of recent proprietor Elon Musk’s promised purge.

One gave his identify as Rahul Ligma. Followers of web memes would have acknowledged the monicker, which is a set-up for a vulgar joke that circulated on Twitter. The opposite was Daniel Johnson, no less than throughout the interview.

Media retailers hungry for a sob story leaped on it, with the normally dependable Bloomberg operating headlines of staff leaving Twitter with containers in hand.

Native TV information reporter Suzanne Phan of ABC-7 tweeted video of the scene, capturing poor Ligma’s story of being fired throughout a Zoom assembly. Embolded by the media curiosity, Ligma held up a replica of Michelle Obama’s e-book, declaring that the previous First Woman “wouldn’t have occurred if Elon Musk owned Twitter.”

Additionally of concern to the ex-employee pranksters: Britney Spears and the way forward for democracy, each endangered by Musk’s possession of Twitter. Topping off their complaints was a confession — since they didn’t have jobs, they had been anxious that they couldn’t make the funds on their Tesla automobiles.

Elon Musk himself obtained in on the enjoyable. “Ligma Johnson had it coming,” he tweeted.