2023-08-11 15:43:12
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Mark Zuckerberg et Elon Musk. MANDEL NGAN – ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
The clash between the two tech moguls, which is due to take place on August 26, will be broadcast live on X and the Meta group’s social networks.
A fight that is becoming clearer. On Twitter (recently rebranded as X), billionaire Elon Musk gave some more details about his upcoming MMA (mixed martial arts) clash against Meta Group CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “ Everything in the set and on camera will be set in ancient Rome, so nothing modern“, announced Elon Musk in a tweet published this Friday, before continuing: “ I spoke to the Italian Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture, they agreed on an epic location.»
If some Internet users are already imagining the two tech moguls clashing at the Colosseum, one thing is certain for now: “The fight will be streamed live on X and Meta’s social media channels.“Said the boss of Tesla and Space X. Also announcing that the entire meeting would be organized jointly by the foundations of the two billionaires and not by the UFC, the American organization of mixed martial arts.
Long-standing rivalry
At the origin of this fight, a tense exchange between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg last June. Through social networks, the two men railed against each other and threatened to come to blows. The rivalry is far from new between the two bosses, who have opposing conceptions of the world or of artificial intelligence. But it has gone up a notch since the takeover of Twitter (X) by the boss of Tesla last October. Mark Zuckerberg saw it as the ideal niche to launch his own competing platform and capitalize on the setbacks that the social network has been going through since. A project on which he has never failed to communicate, triggering the ire of Elon Musk.
Named Threads, this alternative was finally deployed in around forty countries on July 5, triggering new verbal attacks between the two bosses. Elon Musk notably accuses his competitor of having voluntarily recruited several of his former employees and of stealing his trade secrets to develop Threads. “Competition is good, cheating is not.“, he will write on his Twitter account (X).
And if, since then, the craze around Threads has died down, the social network having only 8 million daily active visitors, Elon Musk said he was ready to settle his differences with Mark Zuckerberg in “a cage“. Bets are already raging on social media as to which of the two billionaires is more likely to claim victory. Most rely on the CEO of Meta, known to participate in jiu-jitsu competitions of which he regularly posts videos on his own networks.
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