Breaking up (with Elon Musk) is hard to do
The Verge·October 2, 2026
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 Musk was no longer following her on X. It was also sponsored by Kalshi, because everything in this relationship is totally fucking cursed, dude. 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." "Uh, you know." Zilis, in addition to h …
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