Mark Zuckerberg and Mark’s Dilemma: What Happens If You Don’t Go To The Meta CEO, Then Come Back to Your House

Now that the cage match is not going to happen, Musk said he was going to go to Mark’s house to fight.

Musk did not move on. He went to Palo Alto without getting invited, and he posted about it repeatedly on Monday. He wrote using the old user name of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. He said that he brought the bags because he thought you might want some tea.

Iska said that Mark is traveling and not in Palo Alto. “Also, Mark takes this sport seriously and isn’t going to fight someone who randomly shows up at his door.”

Today let’s talk — for the last time, I hope — about the derailed martial arts bout between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, and the latter’s reckless threats to visit the Meta CEO at his home and broadcast it to the world.

Part of me hesitates to spill yet more ink on a battle that no part of me has ever believed would take place. Last week I wrote here about the importance of bringing skepticism to Musk’s posts on X, the former Twitter, and encouraged my peers in the press to consider not covering them at all. It’s clear that Musk seeks attention for attention’s sake, and given that so many of his promises come to nothing, ignoring him often feels like the best approach.

At the same time, Musk remains the owner of one of the most prominent social networks, despite all he has done over the past year to diminish it. He is co-founding and the CEO of several other companies that are also in the public eye, includingTesla, Neuralink, and SpaceX, which operate the Starlink service that provides internet service in more than 60 countries.

All of which is to say that if the person seems to lose his grip on reality, it makes a difference. I don’t know what other conclusion you could reasonably draw from Musk’s behavior.

(Unfortunately, telling this story involves a fair bit of me writing “And then Musk said this! And then Zuckerberg said that!” in a fashion that I find obnoxious but unavoidable. If you’re already up to speed on the back and forth, feel free to skip the next section.)

Marking Zuckerberg fight creepy: When Elon Musk keeps getting creepier he starts talking about his fight with people in Rome, not UFC

He revived the delusion that it would take place in Rome, in an unspecified but “epic location,” said “the fight will be managed by my and Zuck’s foundations (not UFC),” and promised that the fight would be broadcast on both X and Meta platforms.

As before, Zuckerberg hadn’t agreed to any of this. Among other issues, giving the fight away for free would mean that it raised dramatically less money for charity. For Meta, from a public-relations standpoint, raising money for charity is a necessary pretext for doing the match at all — otherwise it’s just two rich tech guys fighting, and we get enough of that from quarterly earnings calls.

At that point, Zuckerberg had had enough. “I think we can all agree Elon isn’t serious and it’s time to move on,” he posted on Threads. Elon will not confirm a date, then says he requires surgery, and then asks to do a practice round in my backyard. If Elon ever gets serious about a real date and official event, he knows how to reach me. It is time to move on.

By now we are generally familiar with the kind of edgelord behavior Musk is engaging in here: making a threat — “I am coming to your house to fight you” — but doing so in a manner that, if pressed, he can throw his hands up and protest that it was all just a joke.

Surely broadcasting himself driving to Zuckerberg’s house to confront him would represent just as serious a violation. (Arguably more serious, given that @ElonJet posted on a multi-hour delay, and most people don’t have physical access to airport tarmacs.)

Source: Elon Musk keeps getting creepier

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Again, what’s important here is not whether an MMA fight takes place. The world’s richest man is threatening to hunt down a rival CEO at his house and then try to kill him with a sword.

To his dwindling fan base, all this will no doubt play as more swaggering derring-do from their real-life Iron Man. I wonder if his friends, family, employees and investors are aware of the darker side of his business.