Elon Musk Deletes His Company's Facebook Pages

Elon Musk deletes Tesla and SpaceX Facebook pages

Never let it be said that Elon Musk turns down a challenge. 

The founder of SpaceX and Tesla logged onto Twitter on Friday and after a brief exchange online, deleted the pages for his company after being challenged to do so by a few of his 20 million followers. 

It all began after Musk responded to WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton's tweet to the space mogul that "It is time. #deletefacebook." 

"What's Facebook?" Musk asked. Another follower of Musk's chimed in telling him he should delete the SpaceX page on Facebook "if he was the man." 

Musk claimed he had no idea the page even existed. And with a snap of his fingers, the SpaceX Facebook page was wiped from Facebook. 

Another user challenged Musk to delete Tesla's page too and Musk agreed, saying it "Looks lame anyway." 

It didn't end there. The page for Tesla-owned Solar City has also disappeared from Facebook's servers too. 

The backlash against Facebook has grown over the last week after news broke about British company Cambridge Analytica improperly hoovering up millions of Americans' data to use for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign for president. Facebook suffered its worst week on the stock market since 2012, after users protested Facebook's apparent disregard for privacy protections and government officials demanding answers.

In a statement on Thursday, Zuckerberg apologized for his company's role for the data breach and promised that they would take action to prevent other bad actors from improperly acquiring people's data. 

Musk's Facebook-owned Instagram accounts remain active, so it doesn't look like he's totally abandoned social media. "Instagram's probably ok imo, so long as it stays fairly independent," Musk tweeted. 


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