While Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk never did face off in that cage match, " Uncle Elon " has bested Zuck in the political arena, becoming one of the most powerful unelected figures in modern US history. Community notes is only the latest page Zuckerberg has taken from his billionaire rival's playbook. The persona Mark Zuckerberg has taken on to ensure Meta's success as his historical adversary Donald Trump returns to the White House acts a lot like Donald Trump's right-hand man, Elon Musk. Meta also laid off 11,000 workers days after Musk took over Twitter, and Zuckerberg then dubbed 2023 "the year of efficiency" at Meta, cutting another 10,000 people. And as Zuckerberg stayed quieter throughout the 2024 presidential election after Meta took heat for misinformation in 2016 and 2020, Musk did the opposite.

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Persons: Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Uncle Elon, Zuck, Trump, Zuckerberg, —, Meta, rival's playbook, OpenAI, Donald Trump, Donald Trump's, Musk, Lex Fridman's, Vivek Ramaswamy, Apple's Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Dana White, Joel Kaplan, Kaplan, Peter Kafka, Trump's, Adam Mosseri, Nephew Zuck Organizations: Elon, Meta, Mar, Harvard, Twitter, The Boring Company, Trump, of Government, Republican, Fox, Facebook Locations: California, Texas, San Francisco