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    DeTect: News channels fall for Elon Musk’s re-hiring joke

    Based on this, news channels claimed that Musk admitted that firing Twitter employees was his biggest mistake.

    DeTect: News channels fall for Elon Musk’s re-hiring joke
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    Elon Musk with the Twitter employees

    CHENNAI: Last week, Elon Musk shared a picture of him with two people, writing, “Welcoming back Ligma & Johnson!” In the thread that followed, he added it was important to admit when he was wrong, and that firing them was a mistake.

    Based on this, news channels claimed that Musk admitted that firing Twitter employees was his biggest mistake. Alt News found the channels had erroneously promoted a stunt by two men claiming to be Twitter employees who had been fired, as a real incident. The two were actually pranksters, and Musk posted the tweet as a joke.

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