CNBC reporter admits to falling for hoaxers pretending to be Twitter engineers fired by Elon Musk: 'I didn't do enough to confirm'



A CNBC reporter admitted that she didn't do enough to confirm a story after she fell for pranksters who pretended to be Twitter engineers fired by Elon Musk.

The two men were interviewed outside of Twitter headquarters as they held boxes appearing to be their personal items collected after being fired.

Deirdre Bosa of CNBC admitted the error Monday on air.

"I'd like to address something that CNBC reported Friday. I tweeted that a team of data engineers were laid off at Twitter after speaking to two people outside of headquarters who claimed that they were," said Bosa.

'They were not real employees and I didn't do enough to confirm that they were," she added. "They got me, and that, is on me. We, I regret the mistake."

She posted video of her comments on her social media and deleted the tweet with the false report.

\u201cAbout Friday at Twitter HQ - I didn\u2019t do enough to confirm and I regret the mistake\u201d
— Deirdre Bosa (@Deirdre Bosa) 1667243104

Bosa had been among those reporters who were far too eager to spread the false story without checking to confirm the prankster's stories.

"It’s happening Entire team of data engineers let go. These are two of them," she tweeted with a photo of the two men.

The embarrassing episode became a popular Twitter meme after people began pretending to be fired Twitter engineers in order to mock the mainstream media.

\u201cJournalists - my name is Amanda Hugnkis, and today I was fired by Elon Musk himself at Twitter HQ. Willing to talk on the record. DMs are open.\u201d
— amanda aka frank \ud83d\udc22\ud83d\udc7b (@amanda aka frank \ud83d\udc22\ud83d\udc7b) 1666992242

"Journalists - my name is Amanda Hugnkis, and today I was fired by Elon Musk himself at Twitter HQ. Willing to talk on the record. DMs are open," read one parody that got more than 116k likes on Twitter.

"My colleague Ben Dover has informed me he is also willing to talk," she added in a second tweet.

Even Elon Musk laughed at the joke in a tweet posted to his official account.

Here's more about the Twitter employee hoax:

Pranked outside Twitter office after Elon Musk takes charge: These are not fired employeeswww.youtube.com

Joy Reid says the world cares more about Ukraine because of, you guessed it, racism



MSNBC's Joy Reid argued on “The ReidOut” Monday that the only reason "the world" cares about the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine is because it's happening to a "white and largely Christian" nation.

"As the world watches the devastation unfold in Ukraine, nearly 4,000 miles away, another crisis is deepening that we don’t hear much about in the U.S., and that is the war in Yemen," Reid began the segment.

"The coverage of Ukraine has revealed a pretty radical disparity in how human Ukrainians look and feel to western media compared to their browner and blacker counterparts, with some reporters using very telling comparisons in their analyses of the war," she continued.

"Let’s face it. The world is paying attention because this is happening in Europe. If this was happening anywhere else, would we be seeing the same outpour of support and compassion? We don’t need to ask ourselves if our response would be the same if Russia unleashed their horror on a country that wasn’t white and largely Christian.”

Watch:


Joy Reid makes everything about race again...Claims people are more compassionate towards Ukraine because it\u2019s \u2018White And Christian\u2019pic.twitter.com/6y7Tsrtx4B
— Daily Caller (@Daily Caller) 1646743387


Over on Twitter, folks had a few suggestions for the MSNBC host:


Explain to me how anything happening in Yemen involves the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons. Yeah, that\u2019s the difference, Joy. WTFingF.
— Steve Fronabarger (@Steve Fronabarger) 1646756692


I was just thinking the same thing. Let me re-iterate that!
— SevenThousandIslands (@SevenThousandIslands) 1646756777


Keep on fueling the flames joy.
— corey eagan (@corey eagan) 1646758790


Her beloved Biden is now wanting to cut oil deals with Iran, who's backing that conflict she's talking about in Yemen. Hypocrisy..
— Carlos E. Torres (@Carlos E. Torres) 1646756629


How many of those other crises you mention is your network covering Joy? How many are you covering? Stop trying to divide people by race. It is not helpful.
— Deirdre Robinson (@Deirdre Robinson) 1646751290


What I have observed is that Reid and others like her are actively teaching racism in spite of so many in our country working to progress onward. Strange.
— Dada (@Dada) 1646754728


She's even free to go to Yemen and report. What is she waiting for? They don't have 5-star accommodations or limousine transportation?
— Scott Chastain (@Scott Chastain) 1646744205