Tech News: The old feud between social media platform X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has once again come to the surface. Recently, Elon Musk reacted to a post by a user 'Geiger Capital' on deleting his Instagram account and calling the platform an app “made for women”. Musk wrote in response to this post, “Instagram is for girls.” As soon as his statement came out, there was a flood of sharp reactions among online users and many people strongly criticized this comment.
Raising the question, a netizen wrote that now social media will also be decided on the basis of gender? Another user commented that even though women on Instagram have a greater role in activism and setting cultural trends, it is not right for Musk to judge a platform in this way. Let us tell you that Elon Musk had acquired Twitter in October 2022 in a deal worth US $ 44 billion and changed its name to X in July 2023. Since then, competition and ideological differences between the two tech giants are often discussed.
This is not the first time that Musk has made such controversial comments regarding Instagram. Earlier in the month of May also he had said similar things, over which there was a lot of uproar. Critics say that since 2023, Musk has been continuously making sexist and objectionable comments against Meta-owned platforms, due to which he often faces sharp opposition on social media.