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Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do

Collected Oct 2, 2026

Shivon Zilis announced on X that she and Elon Musk, the father of her four children, have broken up. She made the announcement by quote-tweeting a post from an account called "Big Tech Alert," which monitors which accounts follow and unfollow each other on the platform. That post noted that Musk was no longer following Zilis on X. The post was sponsored by Kalshi.

In her statement, Zilis wrote, "It's hard to go from in love to let go in a week with no warning, but that's just how it is sometimes."

Read at The Verge · AI

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Publisher excerpt

In a throwback to MySpace-style internet drama, Shivon Zilis announced that she and the father of her four children, Elon Musk, had broken up on X. To do so, she quote-tweeted a post from "Big Tech Alert," an account that, among other things, monitors what accounts are following and unfollowing each other. That post noted […]