Elon Musk is reigniting talks of a battle with Mark Zuckerberg.
The billionaires have gone forwards and backwards in latest months over a possible exhibition bout, although the dialog appeared to have died down earlier than Musk posted Sunday that the battle goes to stream reside on X (the social media platform previously and nonetheless popularly often called Twitter).
See Musk’s publish under.
Zuck v Musk battle shall be live-streamed on .
All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 6, 2023
“Zuck v Musk battle shall be live-streamed on X,” Musk wrote. “All proceeds will go to charity for veterans.”
Particulars have been skimpy past Musk’s remark, with the enterprise magnate not noting a date nor the precise charity that the battle will allegedly be in help of. Zuckerberg is but to publicly reply to Musk’s newest declare.
Musk has not too long ago been pushing the live-streaming potential of X amid intense competitors within the social media market, with Zuckerberg launching Threads as an alternative choice to the re-branded Twitter. This previous October, Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion.
For the reason that acquisition, advertisers have fled the platform en masse following widespread adjustments to the service, with Musk saying that there was a 50 % drop in advert income and that X stays in damaging money circulation. Threads has additionally faltered after a profitable launch of round 100 million sign-ups, having misplaced over half of its customers based on Zuckerberg.
UFC President Dana White has expressed curiosity in selling the Musk vs. Zuckerberg bout, although he shot down the suggestion that it happen at UFC 300 subsequent 12 months. Along with White, a number of stars of the MMA world have prompt they’d prefer to be concerned, with Jon Jones providing to coach Zuckerberg and Georges St-Pierre leaning in the direction of Crew Musk.
