Elon Musk has joined the #deleteFacebook movement after taking down the official pages for his Tesla and SpaceX companies.
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton sent a tweet in which he called on people to delete their Facebook accounts, to which Musk responded with: “What’s Facebook?”.
What’s Facebook?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
The billionaire entrepreneur was then challenged to take down SpaceX and Tesla’s Facebook pages, which had 2.5 million followers each.
Musk claimed that he “didn’t realise” that either brand had a Facebook page and said that both would “be gone soon”.
I didn’t realize there was one. Will do.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
Both profiles had disappeared within minutes.
The #deleteFacebook movement emerged after data firm Cambridge Analyica was accused of obtaining personal data belonging to approximately 50 million users without their consent.