The wave of layoffs at Twitter is attracting the interest of millions of Internet users. To the point that some believed the testimony of an alleged former employee of the company. A hoax that counts millions of views on TikTok.
The video has been viewed several million times © TikTok video capture
Bought by Elon Musk, the Californian company Twitter, which had nearly 7,500 employees at the end of October, began a wave of layoffs worldwide as well as the temporary closure of its offices.
Indeed, last Thursday, Twitter announced the dismissal of half of its employees by e-mail: ” We will begin the difficult process of reducing our global workforce on Friday“, indicated the message, specifying that all the employees would receive additional information the next morning.
In the night from Thursday to Friday, a group of five employees who had just been dismissed also filed a complaint against the company on the grounds that the group had not respected the 60-day notification period provided for by American law in the event of massive layoffs (Warn Act).
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A hoax that makes the buzz
This wave of dismissals is at the origin of a hoax which has aroused the interest of millions of Internet users. On TikTok, a man posing as a former Twitter employee says he was thanked through a… meme. ” I’ve worked at Twitter for five years. I’m an engineer and I wasn’t fired by phone or in person, but by email “, he says. The man then brandishes a photocopy of this e-mail containing a photo of Elon Musk accompanied by this message: “ It’s time to leave the nest, you’re fired “.
@mattxshaver I was just fired by Twitter and this is what they sent me… twitter elonmusk fired ♬ original sound – Matt Shaver
The video has made a real buzz since it counts more than 13 million views. If many people believed the story, it is indeed a fake. The author of the video is actually a comedian active on social networks: ” It’s crazy to me how many people thought it was real and how many others wanted it to be real to have someone to hate (me or Elon Musk). Thank you to the 25% who sent me advice or offered to help me “he told Politifact.
The video was also posted on Instagram but later deleted after being flagged as misinformation.
The popularity of this hoax shows the interest that many people have in this brutal wave of layoffs and the takeover of Twitter by the richest man in the world. Since then, Elon Musk would have backtracked for a handful of former employees. According to Bloomberg, the blue bird company is already asking some to come back…
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