“Video showing Elon Musk firing Twitter’s former policy head Vijaya Gadde during a live broadcast session”
What FACTLY found
It is a parody video created by a Denmark-based content producer named Damon Imani. This video was created by editing video clips from Elon Musk’s and Vijaya Gadde’s old podcast interviews with Joe Rogan. After acquiring Twitter for $44 Billion, Elon Musk fired Twitter’s former CEO Paresh Agrawal, Vijaya Gadde and other top officials of Twitter. But Musk did not fire Vijaya Gadde during a live broadcast as claimed by the post
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 31 October 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 3 November 2022, 3 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
Where the claim appeared
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