A pair of pranksters posing as laid-off Twitter employees tricked multiple media outlets Friday as the public anxiously awaited news on whether Elon Musk had begun axing staffers.

On the day Elon Musk took over Twitter, people pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes, including one named “Rahul Ligma,” fooled the media.

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Late last month, in the immediate aftermath of Elon Musk acquiring Twitter and announcing he would begin implementing mass layoffs, two forlorn men appeared outside Twi… ...

Fake fired Twitter worker ‘Rahul Ligma’ is a real engineer with an AI data startup used by Harvard. Story by Marina Temkin • 1w. T he morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter ...

It’s been a rough two weeks for fictional character Rahul Ligma. In the span of a couple of weeks, Ligma was fired from both Twitter and FTX. Here’s what happened and what Tesla Inc (NASDAQ ...

Daniel Francis and his friend posed as a pair of laid off employees in a media stunt, calling themselves Daniel Johnson and Rahul Ligma. Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling Published Nov. 23 2022 3:05PM EST ...

The man who goes by Rahul Ligma also recently pretended to be a laid-off employee of the crypto exchange FTX. Shortly after taking charge at Twitter, Musk laid off 3,700 employees .

Ligma, the fake disease which made internet meme history, first rose to fame in 2018 when it was jokingly rumored that it killed famous streamer, Richard Tyler Blevins (best known as Ninja).

One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer “Rahul Ligma.” His real name is Rahul Sonwalkar but the prank went viral. While he never worked for X, he is actually very much a ...