Elon Musk supports #DeleteFacebook campaign
Elon Musk responded to WhatsApp's founder Brian Acton call to #deleteFacebook after the platform's Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal.
In a Twitter thread, Musk replied to Acton tweeting: "What's Facebook?" When another user chellenged him to delete the SpaceX Facebook page, which had around 2.5 million followers, Musk tweeted "I didn’t realize there was one. Will do."
Elon Musk supports Brian Acton's#deleteFacebook campaign
And it didn't end there. Another user asked him to delete the Tesla page from Facebook to which Musk tweeted "Definitely. Looks lame anyway."
Musk kept his promise and deleted all the pages from Facebook which were used by Tesla and SpaceX to livestream rocket launches.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
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