- There is no love lost between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
- The CEOs of the billionaire technology – which controls Tesla and SpaceX and Facebook, respectively – have been fighting since at least 2016 when a SpaceX rocket explosion destroyed a Facebook satellite.
- Since then, they have been headlining on everything from artificial intelligence to Facebook’s data collection practices.
- Recently, Musk linked Facebook to the violent uprising in Washington, DC and described it as a ‘domino effect’.
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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been clashing over everything from artificial intelligence to rockets for more than four years.
The two powers – Tesla and SpaceX and Facebook respectively – do not send their competition a secret. When a SpaceX rocket explosion destroyed a Facebook satellite in 2016, Zuckerberg issued a stern statement saying he was “deeply disappointed” by SpaceX’s failure. And when Facebook became involved in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Musk publicly deleted his companies’ Facebook pages, tweeting that the company was giving him ‘the willies’.
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The two billionaires are one of the richest people on the planet and place them in an elite circle, even by Silicon Valley standards. Despite the fact that they are both engaged in artificial intelligence and that their companies have worked together in the past, it seems that no love between Musk and Zuckerberg is lost.
This is where their feud began and everything that has happened since.