A scurrilous hashtag, #RIPJimmyFallon, was trending on Twitter on Tuesday night and the 'Tonight Show' host has had enough, calling on the company’s CEO Elon Musk personally to take down the hashtag.
00:00Jimmy Fallon is calling on Twitter CEO Elon Musk to stop hashtag RIP Jimmy Fallon from trending.
00:06The hashtag gained popularity and was trending on Twitter Tuesday night after some mischievous users started tweeting hashtag RIP Jimmy Fallon earlier in the day,
00:16often accompanied by a picture of someone other than the Tonight Show host, like fellow late night personalities James Corden and Jimmy Kimmel.
00:22Twitter users who weren't in on the supposed joke were shocked and confused.
00:26Fallon, who is alive and well, tweeted Tuesday evening, Elon, can you fix this? Hashtag RIP Jimmy Fallon.
00:33Musk responded to Fallon's tweet Wednesday morning with, fix what?
00:36The hashtag was still a top trend on Twitter Wednesday morning.
00:40Twitter's current chaos has seen an uptick in disinformation on the platform,
00:43a situation compounded by Musk firing a significant number of people involved with content moderation and dealing with fake accounts and fake news.
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