- SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that he had never seen the SpaceX Facebook page and planned to delete it.
- He's the latest tech entrepreneur to discuss Facebook after the Cambridge Analytica scandal that has cut tens of billions of dollars off Facebook's market value.
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Elon Musk deletes SpaceX and Tesla pages from Facebook as he feuds with Mark Zuckerberg (FB, TSLA)
It could be a battle of the billionaires.
The Tesla and SpaceX Facebook pages have vanished, minutes after Elon Musk — the CEO of both companies — said that he had never seen the SpaceX Facebook profile and planned to delete it.
It started when Musk replied to a tweet earlier in the week from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton, when he tweeted "It is time. #deletefacebook." Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014, making Acton a billionaire.
On Friday morning, Musk answered Acton's tweet by saying "What's Facebook?"
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"Delete SpaceX page on Facebook if you're the man?" a fan chimed in.
"I didn't realize there was one. Will do," Musk replied.
Less than 30 minutes after that tweet, the official Facebook page for SpaceX, along with that of Tesla, vanished.
Musk is the latest notable tech entrepreneur to wade into the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, which centers
SpaceX's Facebook page had 2.6 million likes before it was deleted. SpaceX still has a profile on Facebook-owned Instagram.
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