{"id":9297,"date":"2018-03-24T23:04:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T05:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=9297"},"modified":"2018-03-24T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T05:05:07","slug":"see-why-elon-musk-deletes-own-spacex-and-tesla-facebook-pages","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/see-why-elon-musk-deletes-own-spacex-and-tesla-facebook-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"See why Elon Musk deletes own, SpaceX &amp; Tesla Facebook pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article__content-wrap\">\n<header class=\"article__header\">\n<div class=\"article__title-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"article__title\"><a class=\"crunchbase-link\" style=\"font-size: 16px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk <\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"> apparently wasn\u2019t aware that his company SpaceX had a Facebook page. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__title\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The <\/span><a class=\"crunchbase-link\" style=\"font-size: 16px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/space-exploration-technologies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX <\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"> and Tesla CEO has responded to a comment on Twitter calling for him to take down the SpaceX, <\/span><a class=\"crunchbase-link\" style=\"font-size: 16px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/tesla-motors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tesla <\/a><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"> and Elon Musk official pages in support of the #deletefacebook movement by first acknowledging he didn\u2019t know one existed, and then following up with promises that he would indeed take them down.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__content-wrap\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>He\u2019s done just that, as the <a class=\"crunchbase-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/organization\/space-exploration-technologies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX <\/a> Facebook page is now gone, after having been live earlier today (as you can see from the screenshot included taken at around 12:10 PM ET).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"breakout alignnone size-full wp-image-1611250\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/screen-shot-2018-03-23-at-12-10-17-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1066\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As of this publishing, going to any of the above pages directs you to a message saying \u201cSorry, this content isn\u2019t available right now\u201d instead. That\u2019s a quick turnaround, since Musk seems only to have found out these pages existed about 20 minutes prior to his taking them all offline.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"breakout alignnone size-full wp-image-1611258\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/screen-shot-2018-03-23-at-12-19-54-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"448\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Musk also responded to another comment on Twitter regarding his own and his companies\u2019 prolific use of Instagram, which is of course owned by Facebook. The prolific entrepreneur <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/977213864969256960\">noted<\/a> that Instagram was \u201cborderline,\u201d since FB\u2019s \u201cinfluence is slowly creeping in,\u201d but it seems like he\u2019s okay with maintaining that presence for now.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to their deletion, both the SpaceX and Tesla pages had over 2.6 million Likes and Follows, and super high engagement rates. You have to wonder whether Musk\u2019s social media management employees cried a little when these went down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"breakout alignnone size-full wp-image-1611263\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/screen-shot-2018-03-23-at-12-10-24-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1017\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Developing\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"image-credits\">\n<p><strong>Image Credits: <\/strong>ODD ANDERSEN\/AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk apparently wasn\u2019t aware that his company SpaceX had a Facebook page. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO has responded to a comment on Twitter calling for him to take down the SpaceX, Tesla and Elon Musk official pages in support of the #deletefacebook movement by first acknowledging he didn\u2019t know one existed, and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[320],"class_list":["post-9297","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-category-tech","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>See why Elon Musk deletes own, SpaceX &amp; Tesla Facebook pages<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"See why Elon Musk deletes own, SpaceX &amp; Tesla Facebook pages\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/see-why-elon-musk-deletes-own-spacex-and-tesla-facebook-pages\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"See why Elon Musk deletes own, SpaceX &amp; 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