TECH - While Mark Zuckerberg-Led Meta Battles Advertiser Complaints Elon Musk Continues To Thrash Facebook Instagram For Allegedly Stealing 'Credit For Traffic' | Benzinga
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has once again accused Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) for taking credit for traffic that actually originates from his social media platform, X, formerly Twitter.
What Happened: Musk’s comments came in response to a post by DogeDesigner, a graphic designer at Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), who highlighted a lawsuit against Meta in Japan. The lawsuit alleges financial losses due to Meta’s failure to verify the authenticity of ads.
DogeDesigner suggested that X’s platform ensures that even paid ads are fact-checked by Community Notes, although this feature is not 100% reliable considering its history with erroneously flagging a graphic video shared by Donald Trump Jr.
Musk himself spoke about community notes failing in one instance earlier this year, when he expressed dissatisfaction with a newly purchased Windows PC laptop, which didn’t let me access it until after creating an account with Microsoft. On his post, the note read, “It is still possible to ...