Elon Musk Actually Did #DeleteFacebook – SpaceX and Tesla’s Pages Are Gone
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Earlier this week, WhatsApp founder Brian Acton—who made billions off of Facebook—fired a shot into the arm of the #DeleteFacebook movement in the wake of the Channel 4 investigation into Cambridge Analytica’s perverse abuse of Facebook’s platform for shady political purposes.
It is time. #deletefacebook
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018
Today, it got another kick in the rear from one of the most revered entrepreneurs on planet Earth. Despite over 2.6 million followers, Musk joined #DeleteFacebook and actually deleted Facebook. You can recap the saga on Twitter.
What’s Facebook?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
I didn’t realize there was one. Will do.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
Definitely. Looks lame anyway.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
No, really. He took them down. Here’s the link to SpaceX’s non-existent Facebook page. And here’s Tesla’s. Here’s some screenshots taken by BuzzFeed‘s tech reporter if you’re still skeptical.
yasssssssss pic.twitter.com/qMdTrkcQQm
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) March 23, 2018
slayyyyyyyy pic.twitter.com/zWhZF8biBU
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) March 23, 2018
Ryan Mac has now jokingly moved on to another Facebook property, but one with far less baggage: Instagram.
“strike me down in anger” pic.twitter.com/ZDK1okAo2t
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) March 23, 2018
We’ll update this piece if Musk decides to ax that one too.
UPDATE: Looks like Instagram is safe. This also isn’t a very big deal to Musk, so the power of the gesture does not seem to match the intent.
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
Jacob Weindling is a staff writer for Paste politics. Follow him on Twitter at @Jakeweindling.