“The Zuck Fight [Zuckerberg] against Musk will be broadcast live on X“, announced Elon Musk on Sunday, specifying that “all proceeds will be donated to organizations supporting veterans“. Mark Zuckerberg reacted on his own platform, now a competitor of X, Threads, claiming to be “ready today. I proposed on August 26 when he challenged me but he did not answer me“. The boss of Meta has also proposed that the retransmission be done on “a more reliable platform that can really help raise funds” for associations.
In direct competition since Meta formalized Threads, a platform that incorporates the features of X and has accumulated 120 million users since its launch in early July, according to Quiver Quantitative, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have multiplied more or less bitter exchanges.
Highlight, at the end of June, Elon Musk posted on his account: “I’m ready for a cage fight“, referring to the cage in which MMA fights take place.
Mark Zuckerberg, a martial artist who competes in jiu-jitsu and posts fight videos, responded on Instagram with a screenshot of Elon Musk’s post, followed by the caption “Send me the locationThe swap prompted a flurry of reactions on social media, as well as bets on the potential winner, with Mark Zuckerberg emerging as the clear favourite.
The two tech giants have clashed for years over their opposing worldviews, from politics to artificial intelligence. But the animosity between them has escalated with the arrival of a possible direct competitor to Twitter (now called X).
Elon Musk bought the social network for 44 billion dollars before carrying out massive layoffs, and reopening the platform to conspiratorial accounts, resulting in a significant loss of advertising revenue.