Elon Musk the poster boy of technology has removed the Facebook pages of his companies namely SpaceX and Tesla. This is following Cambridge Analytica’s improper usage of about 50 million user profile data allegedly aided in Trump’s election.  The first prominent person to openly tout deleting Facebook was WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton.

In a social page post, Musk revealed that he never knew that his SpaceX had a Facebook page. Replying to Brian Acton’s ‘#deletefacebook’ tweet Musk wrote ‘What’s Facebook?’ It is also notable that the pages had 2.5 million followers before they were taken off. 

"We’ve never advertised with FB. None of my companies buy advertising or pay famous people to fake endorse. Product lives or dies on its own merits," he said. However, Elon Musk assured that the will be continuing to use Facebook owned photo sharing app Instagram.

What’s Facebook?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

We’ve never advertised with FB. None of my companies buy advertising or pay famous people to fake endorse. Product lives or dies on its own merits.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018

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