Elon Musk Posts Crying-Laughing Emoji in Response to $128 Million Lawsuit by Fired Twitter Executives
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor The “face with tears of joy” emoji represents “a crying with laughter facial expression,” according to Wikipedia. “The emoji is used in communication to portray joking and teasing on messaging platforms.” Elon Musk, the multibillionaire tech baron who owns X (formerly Twitter), on Monday was sued by four former Twitter executives, whom Musk fired immediately after (reluctantly) closing the $44 billion takeover of the company in October 2022.
The execs — former CEO Parag Agrawal; ex-CFO Ned Segal; Vijaya Gadde, formerly Twitter’s head of legal, policy and trust, and safety; and former general counsel Sean Edgett — allege he collectively owes them $128 million in severance pay after being wrongfully terminated.
In what appears to be his first public comment on the litigation, Musk — a notorious fan of internet memes — posted the tears of joy emoji on X in response to a user’s sarcastic remark about the case. “Parag Agraval [sic] is suing Elon Musk claiming that he did in fact get a lot done that week,” the Whole Mars Catalog posted Monday on X, to which Musk replied with the crying-laughing emoji.
In a later post, Musk responded to another X user who joked that Agrawal uses a clown emoji for himself, with Musk writing, “If the emoji fits ….
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