Court docs: Zuckerberg texted Musk approvingly about his work with DOGE in February 2025, offering to “take down content doxxing or threatening” DOGE staffers
The two have a complicated history, but were apparently on friendlier terms at the start of the Trump Administration.
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@berber_jin1
Berber Jin
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frame it in the louvre
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@xfreeze
@xfreeze
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Sam Altman tried to lowball OpenAI's valuation for a fat insider cash-out Elon steps up again - teams with Zuck to bid on OpenAI's IP and block the lowball valuation grab 😂
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@hadas_gold
Hadas Gold
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Some new exhibits filed in Musk v Altman trial including texts between Musk and Mark Zuckerberg about Doge and “bidding on the OpenAI IP” [image]
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@mattzeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin
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you can tell who is used to antitrust investigations
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@goldman
Jason Goldman
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One of the animating ideas behind Techs support of Trump was the perceived overreach on content policy. Some Biden comms folks used brusque language when asking meta to takedown Covid disinformation. But here you've got Zuck telling Musk in his capacity as DOGEmaster: we're rea…
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@buccocapital
@buccocapital
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Elon: “Want to buy OpenAI w/ me?” Zuck: “Want to discuss live?” [video]
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@3xcalibaneur
Ray
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The common through-line with Musk, all the way from his appearance in the Epstein files to here, is that he's a bumbling moron that everyone is forced to tolerate because he's fantastically wealthy. Nobody trusts or likes him, but they do need him.
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@jbillinson
Josh Billinson
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Zuck has come so far since the time he emailed his CFO saying he wanted to buy Instagram to neutralize a competitor and then sent another email an hour later clarifying that he obviously didn't mean that thing he just put in writing [image]
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@palmyrpar
@palmyrpar
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Mark really went “DON'T SAY SHIT IN PLACES THAT CAN BE PRINTED ON PAPER DUMBASS” lmao
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@ptremblay
Philippe Tremblay
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@TechEmails “want to discuss live” is where it ends at because they use end-to-end encryption because they're not retards. 🤷
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@techemails
@techemails
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[This document is from Musk v. Altman (2026).]
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@hadas_gold
Hadas Gold
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Also this from Shivon Zillis depo [image]
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@techemails
@techemails
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Mark Zuckerberg texts Elon Musk February 3, 2025 [image]
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@micahflee.com
Micah Lee
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Zuckerberg: good job with DOGE, I'm censoring Facebook for you and Trump — Musk: ❤️ [embedded post]
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@nstenhouse
Neil Stenhouse
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Feb 3 2025: Musk tweets about putting USAID “into the wood chipper” which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. — Later that day Zuckerberg texted Musk to say he would censor content threatening DOGE & “Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help.” Actively helping…
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@caseynewton
Casey Newton
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It's always interesting to see which subjects Meta will refuse to do content moderation on because “free speech,” and which content moderation the CEO will volunteer to do in advance to curry favor. In this case it was “naming a DOGE employee” [embedded post]