The social media barons exchanged verbal jabs at the weekend, with the Facebook founder saying ‘it’s time to move on’ because the world’s richest man wouldn’t agree to a date for a charity cage match.
Billionaires and social-media business rivals Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk threw new online jabs at each other Sunday, with the Meta founder declaring the owner of X – formerly known as Twitter – was not treating a proposed charity cage match seriously.
“I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on,” Zuckerberg wrote on his Threads social platform.
“I offered a real date … Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead.”
Musk quickly responded on X, the platform he bought last year that was previously called Twitter. “Zuck is a chicken,” Musk posted.
The Tesla boss said he would head to Silicon Valley on Monday: “Can’t wait to bang on his door tomorrow.
