Twitter Challenges Elon Musk To Delete SpaceX And Tesla’s Facebook Pages Over Cambridge Analytica Row. He Just Did.

With the increasing outrage over American social media giant Facebook’s lax action in the recent data breach involving political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, American entrepreneur Elon Musk too joined in giving a snub to Facebook by deleting the pages of two of his companies Tesla and SpaceX.

Responding to a barrage of tweets containing the hashtag #deletefacebook, particularly by Instant Messaging app Whatsapp’s co-founder Brian Acton – now co-founder of Signal – he asked “What’s Facebook?” before being asked to delete SpaceX’s page if he “was the man”.

A second tweet from a Canadian journalist pointing him to Tesla’s page, prompted Musk to take it down too, with Musk saying it looked lame.

Along with this, the page for Musk’s SolarCity disappeared too, reports The Verge.

The last one week hasn’t been good for Mark Zuckerberg’s company owing to the Cambridge Analytica-linked data breach scandal. The company’s market capitalisation fell from $537 billion to $500 billion when news of the breach became public, with reports that Facebook knew about it but hadn’t acted on it prompting him to issue a public apology.

However, none of Musk’s companies’ Instagram pages have been taken down yet. The popular image-sharing network has been a subsidiary of Facebook since 2012.