SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk deleted Facebook pages for both companies after he was asked whether he would scrub the SpaceX and Tesla pages from the social media platform.
Musk responded to a tweet Friday from WhatsApp founder Brian Acton that said it was time to #deleteFacebook, a movement that started on social media after it was revealed a British data firm that worked for the Trump campaign improperly harvested and misused information from hundreds of millions of Facebook profiles.
What’s Facebook?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
Another Twitter user responding to Musk urged him to delete SpaceX’s Facebook page “if you’re the man.”
“I didn’t realize there was one. Will do,” Musk replied.
I didn’t realize there was one. Will do.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
A reporter with The Wire Report suggested Tesla’s page should be deleted too, and Musk agreed.
“Definitely. Looks lame anyway,” he said.
Definitely. Looks lame anyway.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
Musk told his Twitter followers SpaceX’s Facebook “will be gone soon,” and pages belonging to SpaceX and Tesla vanished soon after.
Facebook has spent the past week embroiled in a scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, a data firm that was found to have misused data harvested from 50 million Facebook profiles.
A movement to #DeleteFacebook spread across social media, and backlash from the controversy led Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to apologize and announce steps the company is taking to further protect users’ data.
