Journo who tweeted about 'visibly shaken' fired Twitter employees trying to verify they worked there

Doug P. | 3:46 PM on October 28, 2022

Tesla CEO Elon Musk officially purchased Twitter yesterday and almost immediately fired some top executives.

Here’s who were let go:

The Twitter executives who were fired on Thursday include Parag Agrawal, the chief executive; Ned Segal, the chief financial officer; Vijaya Gadde, the top legal and policy executive; and Sean Edgett, the general counsel, said two people with knowledge of the matter. At least one of the executives who was fired was escorted out of Twitter’s office, they said.

But one CNBC reporter outside Twitter headquarters also tweeted about a couple of “visibly shaken” data engineers who said they’d been fired. At that point she then figured it might be a good idea to find out of they had actually worked there:

A CNBC reporter is currently trying to “verify” if a guy who told her his last name is Ligma is a real fired Twitter employee 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/hlXvFaBfWd

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 28, 2022

“Report first, ask questions later”? Ah, journalism!

https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586042389851820034
https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586043571081134080

This seems a bit “cart before the horse” but better late than never:

fyi -some questions being raised about whether these are really twitter employees.

Still trying to verify https://t.co/GbsWLW4nkk

— Deirdre Bosa (@dee_bosa) October 28, 2022

https://twitter.com/dee_bosa/status/1586058319336067074

However, according to The Verge people are trolling the media outside Twitter HQ:

It's not happening.

These people don't work at Twitter, @verge confirms.https://t.co/yyK16jqK4N https://t.co/CAqVUI8vNV

— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) October 28, 2022

Reporters are so eager to dunk on the @elonmusk @Twitter deal that they aren't even attempting to verify anything before posting it. These two are not/were not Twitter employees. Other journalists did some due diligence but @dee_bosa couldn't be bothered: https://t.co/wcd396FVZL https://t.co/iZggUiCYhj

— Michael (@singletary) October 28, 2022