The Fourth of July preceded a media-tech battle royale that’s rapidly turning ugly: Elon Musk’s Twitter vs. Mark Zuckerberg’s new Threads. It’s hard to know who to cheer for among these once-admired, now widely reviled moguls. But perhaps it becomes a bit clearer when Musk calls Zuckerberg a “cuck” and proposes measuring each other’s phalluses, as he did this past weekend. Methinks the world’s richest man doth protest too much.
It also gets easier after this holiday week to compare Zuckerberg and his engineers to George Washington’s soldiers steeling themselves as they crossed the Delaware River to attack a Hessian garrison.