Fake fired Twitter worker ‘Rahul Ligma’ is a real engineer with an AI data startup used by Harvard

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Fake fired Twitter worker ‘Rahul Ligma’ is a real engineer with an AI data startup used by Harvard

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The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer “Rahul Ligma.”
His real name is Rahul Sonwalker but the prank went viral. He piled…

This story appeared on techcrunch.com, 2025-05-15 21:35:07.