[BurnGpuBurn]

Marc Zuckerberg: "I notice Elon has become much more popular than I am. Elon also owns an internet social platform. Elon has removed most of the censorship from his platform. Maybe if I do the same I will be popular again too?"

[immibis]

Elon hasn't removed most of the censorship from his platform - in fact, he's increased censorship - and I doubt Zuck will either.

What he's done is loudly proclaim to be removing censorship, while also removing censorship from the group that most loudly complains about censorship (which he also belongs to), and increasing censorship on their enemies, who are not so loud.

[benterix]

There was a time when Zucerkberg was popular? His platform once was, but not its founder. There even was a movie on how he cheated others.

[mvdtnz]

His platform which has over 3 billion monthly active users "once was" popular?

[thrance]

If anything, Elon has largely increased the amount of censorship on his platform[1][2]. The only demographic whose voice got louder is the far right[3], in order to please the new presidency. Zuckerberg is going for the same strategy, facts and democracy be damned.

[1] https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-el...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/13/the-right-wing-l...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/04/elon-musk...

[mhh__]

> if anything

How on earth can you say that if you were alive during the pandemic?

[newsbinator]

According to this chart, X is the most politically balanced social media platform:

https://x.com/stat_sherpa/status/1867627066826400096

[slowmovintarget]

I think this was more "I can cut operational costs and ride the populism wave at the same time. Twofer!"

I doubt he cares about popularity, but he very much cares about his stock price and the things it lets him do.

[newsbinator]

Also Marc Zuckerberg: "I notice Elon and Trump are 2 weeks away from running the primary government to which I'm more or less answerable... better batten down the hatches"