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Twitter’s Elon Musk wants cage match with Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg
- The two men have baited each other for years with opposing views on everything from politics to artificial intelligence
- ‘I’m up for a cage match if he is lol,’ Musk tweeted, with Zuckerberg responding via Instagram Story with just three words: ‘Send Me Location’
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Tech titans Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are in a fierce business rivalry that has spilled over into a playground spat, with the two men offering to fight each other in a cage.
Months after Musk took over Twitter, Zuckerberg’s Meta hinted it was planning to launch its own text-based social media platform – essentially a direct rival.
Musk has trolled Zuckerberg ever since with messages on Twitter, telling his fans this week: “I’m up for a cage match if he is lol.”
Zuckerberg, who has followed the trend of tech bosses getting buff and posting martial arts videos, responded on Wednesday on his Instagram Stories with a screenshot of the message and a response: “Send me location.”
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Meta confirmed to Agence France-Presse that Zuckerberg’s message was genuine.
The exchange has provoked mirth on social media with plenty of fight predictions – Zuckerberg emerging as the clear favourite.
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“Please god let this happen,” technology journalist Taylor Lorenz wrote on Twitter.
“The best Musk-Zuckerberg cage match is one in which two men enter and no men leave,” wrote podcaster Bennett Tomlin.
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