Tesla CEO Elon Musk accuses Facebook of complicity in the riot at the Capitol in Washington.
With this, Musk continues the longstanding feud with Mark Zuckerberg.
Washington - Chaotic pictures went around the world last Wednesday when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington (* FR reported).
On that day, the results of the US presidential election should have been confirmed.
Instead of appeasing the angry mob,
Donald Trump
incited
the crowd on his platforms on the Internet.
Tesla
boss
Elon Musk
has given the social network
, and thus
Mark Zuckerberg
, complicity in the storming of the
Capitol
.
The fronts between the two tech giants have hardened again.
Musk: Facebook triggered the "domino effect"
Recently had
Elon Musk
posted a meme on his Twitter profile that
Mark Zuckerberg
and
takes through the wringer.
The tweet featured a photo of a man kneeling next to rows of dominoes of various sizes and nudging them.
Next to the picture was the slogan “A website to rate women on campus” - an allusion to a previous version of
.
Because
Mark Zuckerberg
originally
founded
as a network in which women are rated according to their appearance.
The last and largest domino is a tweet by the journalist Mark Leibovich, which reads: "It seems that the Capitol is under the control of a man with a Viking helmet."
Elon Musk
comments on the picture with a short sarcastic sentence:
This is called the domino effect pic.twitter.com/qpbEW54RvM
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2021
According
to
Elon Musk
,
triggered a domino effect during the riots in the Capitol.
This criticism of Facebook is not new.
Mark Zuckerberg
is repeatedly
accused of not doing enough against
fake news
and hatred on the Internet.
Donald Trump regularly fired the mood * in his country with his
tweets
and posts in the
social networks
, most recently he distributed
a video
on
Facebook,
among other things
, in which he addressed his supporters who were rampaging in the Capitol: “Go home, we love you .
You are something very special. "
The video was later removed from the platforms.
Even
founder
Mark Zuckerberg
got involved in the discussion.
Donald Trump
tried to manipulate the transfer of power to Biden, Zuckerberg wrote in a
post.
It's not the first time
Elon Musk has railed
against
Mark Zuckerberg
.
The
Tesla
founder has
already shown
on his Twitter profile
in the past
that he doesn't believe in
.
Facebook sucks
- Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2020
The topic of artificial intelligence (AI) often provides
material for discussions between
Elon Musk
and
Mark Zuckerberg
.
If
Tesla
boss
Musk has his
way, Artificial Intelligence is the "greatest threat we face as a civilization," according to a report from
cnbc.com
.
Mark Zuckerberg,
on the other hand, sees great opportunities for mankind in this technology.
On a
live stream, Zuckerberg was asked how he assesses the future of AI - with reference to
Elon Musk's
opinion.
He replied: People who criticize Artificial Intelligence would be "against safer cars and against better diagnoses for sick people", as
reported by
faz.net
.
* FR
is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.