Elon Musk Says Combat With Zuckerberg Will Be Livestreamed On Twitter

Elon Musk introduced that his upcoming battle with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg can be livestreamed on X, the social media platform previously often called Twitter. And whereas it’s nonetheless not clear when the battle will happen, Musk says he’s been lifting weights to arrange.

“Zuck v Musk battle can be live-streamed on X. All proceeds will go to charity for veterans,” Musk tweeted early Sunday.

Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a bodily battle again in June, although it appeared attainable on the time each billionaires may have been joking. At this level, it actually does seem to be this “cage match,” because it’s beforehand been dubbed, may occur.

The 39-year-old Zuckerberg has been very publicly coaching in jiu jitsu, even earlier than Musk expressed a want to bodily battle the man tech businessman. Musk is 52 years previous and regarded to be in worse form than the Fb founder. However Musk is outwardly engaged on that drawback whereas additionally working his corporations.

“Am lifting weights all through the day, making ready for the battle. Don’t have time to work out, so I simply convey them to work,” Musk tweeted in a single day.

Musk, who bought Twitter again in October 2022 and lately modified the title of the service to X, runs various companies, together with electrical automobile firm Tesla and industrial house enterprise SpaceX. Twitter employed a brand new CEO, NBCUniversal’s Linda Yaccarino, a couple of months in the past, however Musk remains to be very a lot the general public face of the corporate.

Zuckerberg has reportedly been consuming McDonald’s to interchange all of the energy he’s been burning via figuring out, in keeping with the Solar newspaper. Zuckerberg is consuming roughly 4,000 energy a day and has even posted shirtless images of himself in coaching.

It should clearly be fascinating to see whether or not Zuckerberg decides to concurrently livestream the battle on a platform like Fb or Threads, the latter being a lately launched competitor to Twitter. In reality, Threads may most likely be seen because the impetus for this battle, as Zuckerberg’s new social media platform has reportedly been pitched as a extra “sane” various to the chaos of Twitter. Musk’s model of Twitter has been marred by seemingly impulsive choices from its proprietor to spice up right-wing voices, together with individuals like former Fox Information host Tucker Carlson and the Every day Wire’s Matt Walsh, an anti-LGBT activist.

Musk’s cozy relationship to right-wing figures has been scaring off advertisers, with Musk lately saying that advert income is down 50% since he took over. Some executives who work at main manufacturers are even scared to be seen in the identical room with Musk, particularly after incidents like his protection of Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, who advocated for racial segregation within the U.S. Musk defended Adams, claiming the media had been the racists.

The choice to livestream the battle notably doesn’t point out whether or not there can be any sort of paywall. Twitter now permits customers to cover some content material behind a “subscribe” button, one thing that Musk would presumably be capable to do if he had been attempting to lift appreciable cash from the enterprise, even when it went to charity.

Twitter and Meta didn’t instantly reply to emailed questions early Sunday. I’ll replace this text if I hear again from both firm.