CALIFORNIA – Tesla and SpaceX’s Chief executive officer Elon Musk has removed the official Facebook pages of his companies, giving a devastating blow to the social networking giant.
The #deletefacebook trend, launched by WhatsApp’s founder seems to be getting popular with each passing day after Facebook was accused if allowing a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica, to take up the private data of 50 million American users, however, Musk took a strong exception to the privacy breach.
The decision was taken after Musk wrote in a series of tweets on Friday that he didn’t know Tesla and SpaceX had Facebook pages ever.
What’s Facebook?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
Musk took down Facebook pages after a random Twitter user encouraged him to do so.
Delete SpaceX page on Facebook if you’re the man?
— ㅤ (@serdarsprofile) March 23, 2018
Expressing his unawareness if any of these pages existed, Elon quickly took up the challenge. The Facebook pages of SpaceX and Tesla, both of which had about 2.5 million of likes each, were deleted soon afterwards.
I didn’t realize there was one. Will do.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
As soon as the Cambridge Analytica scandal became public, an immense backlash started pouring out against Facebook. The company lost $70Billion value in just 10 days, while Mark Zuckerberg’s own net worth went down by $9 billion.
Musk’s move comes during a tough time for Facebook. The company has been embroiled in controversy after reports over a week ago revealed Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm with ties to President Donald Trump‘s campaign, bought data from an app developer who had data for 50 million Facebook users.
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A backlash against Facebook ensued. The co-founder of WhatsApp, which Facebook bought in 2014, said it was time to delete Facebook.
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apologized in an interview with CNN last week, saying that the company broke the trust it had with its users.
