TL; DR
- On August 4, 2025, Elon Musk shared an X post from the account @sporadicalia, wherein the latter had mentioned deleting the Instagram app and account.
- While resharing this post, Musk writes, “This is the way.”
- We already know how there’s no love lost between Musk (who owns the microblogging platform X) and Mark Zuckerberg.
I won’t exactly call it a feud, especially since I follow Elon Musk’s X handle quite often, but the tech billionaire sure knows how to make headlines and fill in the gaps between SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink’s feats.
Elon Musk Reshares An X Post About Deleting Instagram
On August 4, 2025, Elon Musk shared an X post from the account @sporadicalia, wherein the latter had mentioned deleting the Instagram app and account.
In this post, @sporadicalia writes, “Deleting my Instagram today. Not just the app, the whole account. It’s time to be a man.”
While resharing this post, Musk writes, “This is the way.” Now, I would have gone into detail about what the remarks could mean, but we already know how there’s no love lost between Musk (who owns the microblogging platform X) and Mark Zuckerberg.
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History Between Musk And Zuckerberg
The history between Musk and Zuckerberg dates back to 2018, after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal had just broken, revealing how the election campaign leveraged the data of millions of Facebook users (without their consent).
Back then, a Twitter user asked Musk whether he’d consider deleting SpaceX’s Facebook page, and Musk did it without flinching. In addition to SpaceX’s official page, Musk also took down SpaceX’s Facebook account (both of which had millions of followers).
Over the years, Musk has criticized Facebook and Instagram on several grounds, including mental health and emotional effects, how the platforms allegedly stifle free speech by removing content, copying Twitter’s code for creating Threads, and mocking Metea during outages in 2024.
However, just last year, Musk called Meta’s new community notes fact-checking model for Instagram and Facebook “cool,” which isn’t exactly a compliment, but felt more like Musk reminding users that X first introduced the model.
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Most Users Agree With Musk, But Some Don’t
Coming back to Musk’s remark, X users seem to have a different opinion about things (and they remain in his comments section).
The X user @BurkeNixon7 says, “X is incredibly more negative, political, etc.” Another user, @happyFvcknBoi, writes, “I’m not deleting mine lol [laugh out loud] but I’m still here.”
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