Elon Musk deletes SpaceX, Tesla Facebook pages

Published March 23, 2018 6:10pm ET



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.

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