Facebook cofounder slams Elon Musk, calling Tesla and SpaceX 'scams he got away with'

• Dustin Moskovitz said Elon Musk's successful companies could be seen as "scams he got away with."

• The Facebook cofounder said Musk sucked up resources from others by overpromising with Tesla.

• Moskovitz pointed to Musk's promises on autonomous cars, and a report that he exaggerated Tesla ranges.

Apparently Mark Zuckerberg isn't the only Facebook founder that's wary of Elon Musk. Facebook cofounder and Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz took a jab at the billionaire on Thursday.

Moskovitz said people often argue Musk makes up for his antics through the value his companies Tesla and SpaceX bring to the world, but the Asana CEO said he's not sure the billionaire's success is legitimate.

"The point is I don't really see these companies as dispensating impact, or at least don't give nearly as much credit to him as others do," Moskovitz said on Threads. "If they were really built on outward lies, rather than just self-deceptions (rose-colored glasses), then we should really see them as scams he got away with."

Moskovitz said that he believes Musk accelerated the development of EVs by one to two years at most and he thinks the Tesla CEO might actually have delayed it by "overpromising." Moskovitz said that Musk attracted customers, workers, and funding through his lofty promises for EV ranges, as well as autonomous driving and automated assembly plants.

Moskovitz pointed to a recent report from Reuters that claimed Tesla, through a direct order from Musk, had exaggerated the expected range for its EVs on the vehicle's dashboard. Moskovitz added that the higher ranges made Teslas "look heads and tails above the competitors and that was not true."

Neither Musk nor Tesla have responded to Reuters' report. Though, Musk reacted with what appeared to be surprise when a fan shared some of the Facebook cofounder's comments with him online. "Moskovitz actually said that?" he said.

Reuters did not indicate how far off Tesla's advertised range estimates were from its actual range, but cited third-party tests that indicated meaningful differences in real-world testing. The electric-car maker dominates the US market in large part because legacy automakers like Ford and General Motors have only begun to scale production for their own EVs. Tesla also no longer has the longest advertised range on the US market for electric cars.

The Lucid Air has a range of about 516 miles, while Tesla's longest range vehicle, the Model S, has an estimated range of about 405 miles per a full charge.