{"id":1740240,"date":"2022-11-15T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T22:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740240"},"modified":"2022-11-15T18:18:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T23:18:11","slug":"elon-musk-welcomes-ligma-johnson-trolls-back-to-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-welcomes-ligma-johnson-trolls-back-to-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Welcomes &#8220;Ligma &#038; Johnson&#8221; Trolls Back to Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-welcomes-ligma-johnson-trolls-back-to-twitter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1740240&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/article_Screen_Shot_2022-11-15_at_3.45.28_PM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>                In an unexpected heartwarming move, Elon Musk welcomed back &#8220;former employees&#8221; &#8220;Ligma and Johnson&#8221; to Twitter headquarters today.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Rahul\u00a0Ligma&#8221; and &#8220;Daniel\u00a0Johnson&#8221; are fictitious names used by two pranksters who were able to dupe mainstream media into believing that they were woke Twitter employees who had just been fired in the wake of Musk&#8217;s takeover of the company.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC\u2019s Deirdre Bosa fell for the prank and filed a report featuring the two men back in late October.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Skepticism immediately emerged on social media. One of the pranksters said his name was &#8216;Rahul Ligma&#8217; \u2014 a reference to a popular internet meme \u2014 and held a copy of Michelle Obama\u2019s book \u201cBecoming\u201d aloft while speaking to reporters. The other said his name was &#8216;Daniel Johnson.'&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/28\/pranksters-posing-as-laid-off-twitter-employees-trick-media-outlets\/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&#038;utm_medium=site%20buttons&#038;utm_campaign=site%20buttons\">The New York Post<\/a> reported at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Musk&#8217;s initial response to the prank was epic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Important to admit when I\u2019m wrong &#038; firing them was truly one of my biggest mistakes,&#8221; Musk said on Twitter in a follow-up tweet welcoming the boys back into the Twitter fold.<\/p>\n<p>The prank, in addition to being hilarious, also proved Elon Musk&#8217;s point that the mainstream media should not have a monopoly on &#8220;the truth&#8221; and establishing the narrative. Musk has pledged to elevate citizen journalism in order to combat the spread of mainstream misinformation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unexpected heartwarming move, Elon Musk welcomed back &#8220;former employees&#8221; &#8220;Ligma and Johnson&#8221; to Twitter headquarters today.&#8221;Rahul\u00a0Ligma&#8221; and &#8220;Daniel\u00a0Johnson&#8221; are fictitious names used by two pranksters who were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1740243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1740240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1740240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1740243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1740240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1740240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1740240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}