Elon Musk's Twitter account was not suspended following Twitter job cuts
Elon Musk's Twitter account was not suspended following Twitter job cuts
(Reuters) - Elon Musk’s Twitter account was not suspended after major redundancies were announced at Twitter on Nov 4.
Social media users shared a screenshot claiming to show that Musk’s official account (@ElonMusk) had been suspended, with claims that an outgoing employee suspended his profile.
One user shared the screenshot on Twitter with a caption that reads: “1/3 - Oh wow! Looks like before being laid off a Twitter employee may have suspended @eIonmusk’s account …” (here).
Another individual linked to the same suspended account, with the tweet gathering more than 133,000 likes (here).
Examples of the claim shared online can be found (here), (here), (here), (here), (here) and (here).
Musk’s Twitter account remains active and viewable (twitter.com/elonmusk). There is no evidence or media reports to support the claim that it was suspended.
The suspended account highlighted in the tweets is not Musk’s official Twitter handle. Instead, a lowercase ‘l’ was replaced with an uppercase ‘i’, making it appear identical to Musk’s account (twitter.com/eIonmusk).
By copying-and-pasting the above handle into Google, and eliminating all letters except for the lowercase l, it shows that it is an uppercase i, not a lowercase L (archive.ph/wip/Tx0Mj).
A spokesperson for Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Twitter began a major round of layoffs on Nov 4, letting go about 50% of its employees (here), (here).
VERDICT
False. There is no evidence to support claims that Musk’s account was suspended after redundancies were announced at Twitter.
