Mark Zuckerberg texted Elon Musk to offer help with DOGE

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While the narration betwixt Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg was erstwhile thorny capable that Musk challenged Zuckerberg to a cagefight, things had warmed up by the aboriginal days of the 2nd Trump medication — astatine slightest according to tribunal documents published Friday.

As reported by Engadget, these texts betwixt Zuckerberg and Musk were released arsenic portion of Musk’s suit against OpenAI. They were sent connected February 3, 2025, astir the clip Zuckerberg appeared connected Joe Rogan’s podcast to kick that firm America had go “emasculated.”

Referring to Musk’s assertive government-slashing efforts done the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Zuckerberg texted, “Looks similar DOGE is making progress. I’ve got our teams connected alert to instrumentality down contented doxxing oregon threatening the radical connected your team. Let maine cognize if there’s thing other I tin bash to help.”

Musk reacted with a bosom emoji, past asked, “Are you unfastened to the thought of bidding connected OpenAI with maine and immoderate others?”

In response, the Meta CEO suggested discussing the thought implicit the phone. According to antecedently released documents, Zuckerberg ne'er really signed connected to articulation Musk’s bid.

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