Elon Musk’s disagreement with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg continues to rage on following the launch of the brand new Twitter rival referred to as Threads. Each Musk and Zuckerberg have been exchanging blows on their respective microblogging platforms with threats of lawsuits, cryptic posts, and even the potential for a cage match. On this newest feud, Musk referred to as the Meta CEO a “cuck” on Sunday, in response to a screenshot of Zuckerberg’s reply to a publish by the American quick meals chain Wendy’s on Threads.
The official Threads deal with of Wendy’s posted on Sunday, “Hey @Zuck, you need to go to area simply to make him actually mad lol”, to which the Meta CEO replied with a laughing emoji. Twitter person @fentasyl seen the dialog and posted a screenshot of the identical on Twitter, writing that Elon: Protects free speech” whereas “Zuck: Protects model speech”. Twitter’s govt chair and CTO took discover of this and commented on the publish, “Zuck is a cuck”.
Quickly after, Zuckerberg additionally gave the impression to be trolling Musk with one-word replies on Threads. Replying to a publish on the platform, the Meta CEO commented “regarding”, with a laughing emoji, the identical method Musk often responds to tweets.
Twitter’s lawsuit menace
This isn’t the primary time that Musk and Zuckerberg have butted heads. Simply days after the launch of the Threads app, Twitter expressed considerations over Meta’s “systematic, willful, and illegal misappropriation” of Twitter’s confidential knowledge and codes to construct Threads.
The contents of a leaked e mail despatched by Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro on behalf of the microblogging platform to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has been obtained by Semafor. It states, “Based mostly on the current reviews relating to your lately launched ‘Threads’ app, Twitter has severe considerations that Meta Platforms (“Meta”) has engaged in systematic, willful, and illegal misappropriation of Twitter’s commerce secrets and techniques and mental property”.
