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Jimmy Fallon has begged Elon Musk to stop Twitter users from joking about his death — hours after the hashtag #RIPJimmyFallon inexplicably started trending.
Tesla mogul Musk, 51, who completed his highly controversial $44 billion takeover of the microblogging site last month, was personally approached by the TV host, 48, on Tuesday after erroneous tweets about his death surfaced.
To fall upon tweeted, “Elon, can you fix this? #RIPJimmyFallon’ with Musk sending the nonchalant response, ‘Fix what?’ the next day.
Fans continue to jokingly use the #RIPJimmyFallon hashtag with photos of other celebrities, including James Corden, David Hasselhoff, and Matt Damon – causing mass confusion among people who don’t know it’s a hoax.
Wow: Jimmy Fallon (left) has begged Elon Musk (right) to stop Twitter users from joking about his death — hours after the hashtag #RIPJimmyFallon inexplicably started trending
Twitter has seen a wave of misinformation after Musk fired much of the platform’s full-time staff by email earlier this month.
Last week, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly had to make it clear it wasn’t offering insulin for free after a fake Twitter account — verified via Twitter Blue, an $8-a-month subscription service — tweeted, “We’re excited to announce that insulin is now available for free. is.’
The post from parody account @EliLillyandCo – which used the same logo as the company on its profile picture and boasted a blue tick – was identical to the official account and caused mass panic.
The account was later suspended and Eli Lilly, a $330 billion company, shut down all of their Twitter ad campaigns.
Oh dear: Fallon tweeted, “Elon, can you fix this? #RIPJimmyFallon’ with Musk sending the nonchalant response, ‘Fix what?’ the next day
On Sunday it turned out that Musk had moved on blasted the teams fighting disinformation on the social media platform as outsourced moderators learned over the weekend that they were out of jobs.
The social media giant on Saturday fired its contractors who follow hate and other harmful content. Some contractors said they didn’t realize they had been fired until they were unable to log into work.
According to Platformer News reporter Casey Newton, about 4,400 of the 5,500 contractors have been laid off.
Melissa Ingle, who worked as a contractor at Twitter for more than a year, was one of a number of contractors who said they were terminated on Saturday without notice. She said she is concerned there will be an increase in abuse on Twitter with the number of employees leaving.
Tweets: Fans continue to jokingly use the #RIPJimmyFallon hashtag with photos of other celebrities, including James Corden, David Hasselhoff and Matt Damon – causing mass confusion among people who don’t know it’s a hoax
“I love the platform and I really enjoyed working with the company and making it better. And I’m just really scared of what’s going to slip through the cracks,” she said.
Newton said affected employees are involved in Twitter’s marketing, content moderation and real estate sectors.
“Contractors are not notified at all, they just lose access to Slack and email,” Newton wrote on Twitter. ‘Managers found out when their employees just disappeared from the system. They heard nothing from their leaders.’
Content moderation expert Sarah Roberts, an associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, tweeted on Sunday that about “3,000+ contractor employees from Twitter were fired last night.”
Twitter has not said how many contract workers it has cut. The company dismantled its communications department and has not responded to media requests for information since Musk took over.
Fake news: The TV presenter is alive and well, but the hashtag has sparked panic
Contractors also do other work to keep Twitter running,
“All contractors are not content moderation agents,” Roberts said. ‘Contractors fulfill many key roles within the company. But almost all moderators are contractors.”
In the early days after Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion at the end of October fired the board of directors and top managersthe CEO of the billionaire Tesla tried to reassure civil rights organizations and advertisers that the platform could continue to suppress hate.
That message was echoed by Yoel Roth, Twitter’s then-head of content moderation, who tweeted that the Nov. our front-line moderation staff are experiencing the least impact.”
Roth has since leaving the companyjoining an exodus of high-level leaders charged with privacy protection, cybersecurity and regulatory compliance.
Experts have expressed concern that making the tick available to anyone for a fee could lead to impersonation and the spread of misinformation and scams.
Musk’s move comes after he fired some of Twitter’s employees by email on Nov. 4
Musk recently tweeted, “Keep in mind that Twitter will be doing a lot of stupid things in the coming months. We keep what works and change what doesn’t work’
Musk sought to reassure major companies advertising on Twitter Wednesday that his chaotic takeover of the social media platform won’t hurt their brands, acknowledging that some “stupid things” could happen on his path to creating what he says is a better place. , safer user experience.
The latest whimsical move in the minds of major advertisers on whom the company depends for revenue was Musk’s decision to scrap a new “official” label on high-profile Twitter accounts just hours after its introduction.
Twitter began adding the gray labels to some high-profile accounts on Wednesday, including brands like Coca-Cola, Nike and Apple, to signify they’re authentic. A few hours later, the labels started to disappear.
“Besides being an aesthetic nightmare when you looked at the Twitter feed, it was another way to create a two-class system,” the CEO of the billionaire Tesla told advertisers in an hour-long talk that broadcast live on Twitter. “It wasn’t tackling the core problem.”
Media sites such as The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal were officially designated, as were most major corporate brands. And then they were gone.