[VERGE] The cage match is back: Musk says the fight will ‘be live-streamed on X’

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  The cage match goes back to June, when the two billionaires agreed to the fight via a series of social media posts on their respective platforms (Musk on Twitter, Zuckerberg on Instagram).

  Talk of the fight has been relatively quiet since the end of June though, and in late July, a Reuters story quoted the Zuck as saying he wasn’t sure if the fight would “come together.”

  Prior to that, Musk was seen training with Lex Fridman, a computer scientist versed in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, as well as UFC champion George St-Pierre.

  UFC president Dana White has apparently been mediating between the two.

  Meanwhile, talk of the fight follows an apparent attempt by Zuckerberg to rehabilitate his image to win over Musk stans, even as his new social network, Threads, mounts the biggest challenge to Twitter’s dominance of short-form posting yet.

  We’ve reached out to both Meta and Twitter about Musk’s comment, and will update if we hear more.

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• DScratch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I pity the poor bastards who stuck around Twitter that now have to figure out how to make this work.

  You KNOW this is the first time they’re hearing this.

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• acastcandream@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Man I wish like only 50 people would watch it. Enough that they can’t say it was a technical issue, but so low that they have their egos bruised. Sadly that won’t be the case.

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  • crab@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There will be thousands of journalists watching it so they can report on how many other journalists watched the fight and how popular it was among journalists

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    • acastcandream@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dead internet journalism theory? Lol

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• smellythief@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It should be streamed on Xitter, FB, Insta, and Thrreads. The tech bro who raises more $ wins.

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• threegnomes@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Musk getting fucked livestreaned on xvideos?

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