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Linked tweet is deleted. Here's CNBC's article: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-...

Probably because the interviewees were playing a prank; one gave his name as "Rahul Ligma"[0] (as in "lig ma balls", referencing a meme)

[0] https://twitter.com/WealthyCFO/status/1586053744269340672

The embedded tweet was a prank, guy gives his name as "Rahul Ligma"

https://twitter.com/wealthycfo/status/1586053744269340672?s=...

Ok, we've changed to that from https://twitter.com/anthony/status/1586047790341398534. Thanks!

Edit: changed from https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-... to a more accurate report now.

You should remove this altogether; it's definitely a prank. These two people didn't actually work at Twitter, and as of right now there haven't been any layoffs (outside of 4 executives being fired).

It's a real story that CNBC reported a fake story, and that's all the updated title says.

(Actually, I don't know what the title says because I see two different titles. In Feedly it says "CNBC reporting that..." but here on this page it says "Departing Twitter employees...". If the title was updated to be correct, I'd expect the Feedly copy to be old and this copy to be current. I'd also generally expect an aggregator (Feedly) to be less authoritative and less current than the source (HNn), yet in this case the Feedly title is correct and what I see right here in my browser on a phone is incorrect, or rather, not updated anyway. So, thanks to the existence of editing and unknown caching in unknown places/layers, I have no way to say what the title even is, and so no way to say if it's correct or not.)

It's not; the title says CNBC reported layoffs have started; not that CNBC fell for a hoax.

There is literally zero other backing for "layoffs have started"; not anonymous sources, not official sources, not CNBC investigations. The entire basis for this was that hoax. @dang should delete this. The entire article is false and will need to be retracted.

The fact that CNBC reported something, is a fact. That is it's own real story. Forget Twitter.

The article is misinformed https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1586058607585812481

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428775/twitter-fake-em...

@DanG please change ink, the real story is about mainstream media being hoaxed.

The tweet by @Anthony was deleted within a few minutes of me responding (could be coincidental of course) [1]

The disturbing part is how the retweet chain between the reporters on Twitter changed the story: The original Tweet was "Entire team of data engineers let go." That became "Twitter data engineering team..." That became "Twitter's entire data engineering team let go"

Needless to say "Entire team of data engineers" is much smaller in scope than "Twitter's entire data engineering team." The WSJ reporter who posted this tweet made an egregious error (even before the hoax was revealed).

[1] https://twitter.com/stinky_teddy/status/1586056205075521536?...

I'm hearing these two guys were IRL trolls (not Twitter employees), and CNBC was bamboozled.

another link from a different reporter:

https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586042389851820034

> Daniel tells us he owns a Tesla and doesn’t know how he’s going to make payments.

These seem like fabulously hilarious trolls

Free speech has begun. LOL

Most likely the user deleting their own tweet (see https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586055365409443840)

Wow, so CNBC potentially put up a front page story based on the word of a guy on the street, no verification? I don't know how normal that is but it doesn't sound good.

I was always under the impression the common journalistic standard was two independent verifications in general and three for super serious, potentially litigation inducing stuff.

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