The tech guru chipped into the anti-Facebook conversation by deleting pages he hadn’t known existed.
By
Aja Romano@ajaromano Mar 23, 2018, 4:20pm EDT
Elon
Musk took a flamethrower to his company Facebook pages after going on a
mischievous Twitter riff about how insignificant Facebook is.
The
head of SpaceX and Tesla ordered the pages for both companies to be deleted on
Friday after responding sarcastically to an article on Vox sister site The Verge
about companies deleting their Facebook accounts — but only temporarily. “Wow, a
whole week,” Musk snarked. “Risky.”
Facebook’s
ongoing scandal related to data firm Cambridge Analytica has prompted a public
backlash against the company, including the rise of the hashtag #DeleteFacebook
and an outpouring of takes about how, why, and whether you should or shouldn’t
stop using the cultural juggernaut that is Facebook.
Musk
evidently sees Facebook differently than many of us, however; he followed up his
response to The Verge with a tweet to WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, as Acton
encouraged people to take the plunge and say goodbye to Facebook; Musk responded
with “What’s Facebook?”
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