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Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and one of the richest men in the world, has taken a stand against Facebook, albeit indirectly. In a post on Twitter, Musk blamed Mark Zuckerberg's social network for the fact that the United States Capitol, home of Congress, had been invaded on Wednesday by supporters of President Donald Trump.

Musk shared an image of a man with a sequence of dominoes, the first of which was labeled a “site to rate women on campus” and the last one, a reference to the protesters who invaded the Capitol. “This is called the Domino Effect,” Musk summarized. Although he did not mention Facebook by name, the reference is clear, as the site was created by Harvard University students for the aforementioned purpose and, today, is accused of spreading false information, much of it coming from President Donald Trump.

Musk's outburst, interestingly, came almost in parallel with a radical positioning Facebook's own statement on the Capitol incident. Guy Rosen, the company's vice president of integrity, and Monika Bickert, vice president of global policy management, published a manifesto titled "Our response to the violence in Washington."

The feud with the social network is old

Regardless of Facebook's stance against the acts that took place at the Capitol, the Tesla billionaire's beef with the social network has a previous origin. This is not the first time that Elon Musk has attacked Facebook. On other occasions, the Tesla CEO has said that the social network was useless, also via Twitter. “Facebook sucks,” the billionaire posted in May in response to a comment by Jerome Pesenti, head of AI at Mark Zuckerberg's social network.

Going further, in February 2020, Elon Musk posted a tweet instructing their followers to delete their Facebook account, responding to a comment by Sacha Baron Cohen, who asked the authorities responsible to increase the publishing standards on the social network. Musk, unlike other leaders, however, did not attack those responsible for the hack, only Facebook. Tim CookCEO of Apple, and Sundar Pichai, Google's top executive, in turn, openly condemned the protesters.

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