In a cringy social media war Friday, billionaire Elon Musk told Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez to “stop flirting” with him after the Rep blasted an unnamed “billionaire with an ego problem.”
“Tired of having to collectively stress about what explosion of hate crimes is happening bc some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special,” the New York progressive wrote in a tweet on Friday.
Musk, whose buyout offer was accepted by Twitter earlier this week, then responded: “Stop hitting on me, I’m really shy.”
Ocasio-Cortez responded in a now-deleted tweet that she was talking about a different billionaire, Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“I was talking about Zuckerberg but ok,” the New York lawmaker replied.
Musk, nor Zukerberg, replied to the now-deleted tweet.
Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet may have been referring to Zuckerberg’s confidential dinner with Carlson. Thiel, Zuckerberg’s longtime mentor, was one of Facebook’s early investors.
