Unlikely saviour: Elon Musk’s antics give Mark Zuckerberg PR makeover


Meta’s new app has provoked Musk to sue Zuckerberg as well as unfurl a spate of potty-mouthed trolling on Twitter. — AFP

WASHINGTON: After years of bad press and scandal, Mark Zuckerberg is seeing his reputation spruced up in the fickle world of tech, largely thanks to the increasingly unpredictable behaviour of Elon Musk.

Always bubbling just beneath the surface, the on-again, off-again rivalry between Musk and Facebook creator Zuckerberg has boiled over with the launch of Twitter-clone Threads.

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