Elon Musk joins #deletefacebook boycott

Elon Musk, founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX. File picture: John Raoux/AP

Elon Musk, founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX. File picture: John Raoux/AP

Published Mar 24, 2018

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Los Angeles - Verified Facebook pages of SpaceX and Tesla disappeared on Friday, minutes after Elon Musk responded to a comment on Twitter calling for him to take down his rocket company SpaceX, electric carmaker Tesla and his own official pages in support of the #deletefacebook movement. 

"What's Facebook?" Musk on Friday morning sarcastically replied to a tweet from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton urging his followers to delete Facebook by tweeting "It is time." 

It is time. #deletefacebook

— Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018

Musk, CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla, Inc, replied to a comment on Twitter calling for him to take down the SpaceX, Tesla and Musk official pages in support of the #deletefacebook movement by saying "I didn't realize there was one. Will do." 

I didn’t realize there was one. Will do.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

Less than half an hour, the verified Facebook pages of SpaceX and Tesla, Inc are no longer accessible. Prior to the deletion, both the two pages had over 2.6 million Likes and Follows, and super high engagement rates. 

Instagram’s probably ok imo, so long as it stays fairly independent. I don’t use FB & never have, so don’t think I’m some kind of martyr or my companies are taking a huge blow. Also, we don’t advertise or pay for endorsements, so … don’t care.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

The boycott "#deletefacebook" started after US and British media reported that the data of more than 50 million Facebook users were inappropriately used by a British data analysis company, Cambridge Analytica, in activities allegedly connected with U.S. President Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign. 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted on Wednesday that his company had made mistakes in a data leak that caused grave concern about user privacy possibly abused for political purposes. 

Xinhua

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