The controversial tycoon said he will broadcast the mixed martial arts cage match between the two tech entrepreneurs. Chicanas to the businessman from Meta, since he launched Threads, and pledges of donations.
Between a pose of two eccentric millionaires and a fierce competition for the network power plants that he commands, the declared war between the two greatest exponents of the technological world today continues to boil and Elon Musk owner of X, a social network formerly known as Twitter, announced that its platform will be the one that broadcasts his eventual mixed martial arts fight against Mark Zuckerberg boss of Meta.
Musk, in his social network -which now competes with Threads, the creation of the inventor of Facebook, an idea that has them locked in verbal exchanges-, also announced that “all proceeds will be donated to organizations that support war veterans.
An hour before the streaming television announcement of the event, the billionaire had already launched more challenging posts. “I’m lifting weights all day, getting ready for the fight. I don’t have time to exercise so I just wear them to work,” she wrote.
Threads released by Meta, uses the same functions as X and has 120 million users since it began operating at the beginning of July, according to the consulting firm Quiver Quantitative. However, the numbers of Zuckerberg’s new network began to drop with alarm in the last weeks.
Musk versus Zuckerberg: a war of egos and millions
Zuckerberg and Musk have been critical of each other ever since, and they intensified their crosses, accusations and even challenges.
At the end of June, Musk assured in his account that he was “ready for a cage fight“, referring to the one used in mixed martial arts combat, known by the acronym MMA.
Zuckerberg, an adept to those disciplines, who competes in jiu-jitsu and posts fight videos, responded on instagram with a screenshot of Elon Musk’s message, followed by the words “Send me the spot.”
The exchange of messages caused a wave of reactions on social networks, as well as bets on the potential winnercon Zuckerberg emerging as the clear favorite.
The two big tech businessmen hold opposing views of the world, from politics to artificial intelligence.
But the animosity between them further intensified with the advent of Twitter’s direct competitor launch.
After buying that network for 44,000 million dollars, Musk carried out massive layoffs in the company and reopened the platform to conspiratorial accounts, which resulted in a loss of advertising revenue, reports the AFP agency.
“The first episode will be on X-video“, Wrote one account what parody to the tycoon owner of Tesla, in a play on words in which he alludes to a site with pornographic content, with just the right sarcasm for this war of millionaire vanities.