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“We had a video call… It’s better to talk directly than to communicate on Twitter”
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(Los Angeles = Yonhap News) Correspondent Mina Lim = Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has acquired and operated Twitter since last year, mocked a Twitter employee who asked if he was fired by mentioning his physical disability, and it became controversial on the 8th (local time). time) apologized in the end.
When Musk sent a message asking if Haraldur Sorleifsson (Twitter name ‘Harley’), who had difficulty moving his arms and legs due to muscular atrophy, was fired from Twitter the day before, Musk replied, “This guy didn’t do his job properly.” “I made up an excuse that I mightn’t type due to my disability, but at the same time posted a storm tweet,” he mocked.
Afterwards, as media reports and Twitter comments criticizing the distorted perception and rude language of the disabled continued, Musk took a step back, saying that there was a part he misunderstood in one day.
“I want to apologize to Harley for misunderstanding the situation,” he wrote on Twitter.
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“I had a video call with Harley to find out if what I heard was true. It’s a long story,” he said. “It’s better to talk to people directly than to communicate on Twitter.”
“He is considering remaining on Twitter,” he added.
The person involved, Sorleifsson, did not comment on the matter on Twitter. Living in Iceland, he set up a digital brand agency called Ueno nine years ago and has been running it for seven years. In 2021, when the company was acquired by Twitter, he introduced himself as a member of Twitter and working on design support.
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