Hacked crossings play fake messages from Musk and Zuckerberg

Officials in Silicon Valley are investigating and have disabled the audio feature on the pedestrian crossings.

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Officials in Silicon Valley are investigating and have disabled the audio feature on the crossings which usually plays instructions to "walk" or "wait".

The surprise message were noticed over the weekend in Palo Alto, Redwood City and Menlo Park - which is home to Zuckerberg's sprawling Meta campus.

One Musk impersonation offered to buy passing pedestrians a Tesla Cybertruck if they agreed to be his friend. Another from a false Zuckerberg said "real ones call me The Zuck".

It is still unclear who created the messages or how they ended up being played from the crossings.

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