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Billionaire tech titans Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are seemingly training for a cage fight, but the duel is already playing out in the digital marketplace. Musk’s company Twitter took a hit in website traffic as its new competitor Threads surpassed records for online platform growth. Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta, formerly named Facebook, boasted that its new app had garnered 100 million users in just five days.

Musk initially proposed the cage match on June 20, in response to a tweet about Twitter’s upcoming rival, and Zuckerberg responded on Instagram, which Meta bought for $1 billion in 2012. After the launch of Threads, Twitter threatened Meta with legal action, calling the platform a “copycat” app. Musk and Zuckerberg have been dissing each other on their respective platforms ever since. ...

All hail Newt Gingrich — still the king of presidential campaign debt.

Gingrich's 2012 presidential campaign committee continues to owe creditors more than $4.63 million, according to new financial documents filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission.

No other presidential campaign committee from any past election cycle owes more....