On an earnings call, the Meta CEO praised X's Community Notes system, highlighting its effectiveness compared with third-party fact-checkers.

An authentic Fox News graphic was manipulated and circulated online to suggest that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was "cool" about a recent disputed hand gesture made by Elon Musk.

CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Photo credit: Getty The Fed is used to steering markets on its big day,

In January 2025, a rumor spread online that tech entrepreneur Elon Musk once said he "longs" to be able to get pregnant.

During an interview, the Microsoft founder was quick to put a stop to comparisons between himself and Elon Musk, and laid into the Trump ally for his involvement with foreign politics.

In a report by The Guardian, Meta is shaking things up by scrapping third-party fact-checking and rolling out a hands-off content moderation approach. Instead, users will rely on "community notes" to self-police content – a method that Elon Musk introduced on X (formerly Twitter).

In the past, the EU has not hesitated to try to apply European law to tech companies. Over the past decade, for example, Google has faced three fines totaling more than $8 billion for breaking antitrust law (though one of these fines was overturned by the EU’s General Court in 2024).

Despite past disagreements, Zuckerberg and Musk seem to share common ground when it comes to fact-checking. The Meta CEO justified his company’s shift towards a similar crowdsourced model, explaining that X’s approach—where users add context to posts—has proven to be more reliable than traditional fact-checking methods.

Elon Musk's social media platform labeled his own argument "objectively false" over the weekend. A community note added to an X, formerly Twitter, post that Musk penned on Sunday blasted the X owner's remarks about subways being more efficient than cars "objectively false.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has clashed with Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, one of the automaker's top investors, according to a record of the conversation released on Tuesday.

As Elon Musk and his billionaire brethren take power in Trump’s second term, the lack of legal guardrails — and the fading power of Big Media — is becoming an existential crisis.