New York Post

‘What’s Facebook?’: Elon

- By NICOLAS VEGA nvega@nypost.com

Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX disappeare­d on Friday after CEO Elon Musk got dared to delete them on Twitter.

The road to the pages’ surprise demise began when WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, who sold the messaging service to Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion, tweeted Wednesday that “It is time. #deleteface­book.”

Acton hasn’t elaborated on his tweet, which looked like an expression of disgust over reports that Facebook handed over troves of user data to Cambridge Analytica, a firm that was seeking to tip the 2016 presidenti­al election to Donald Trump.

Musk (right) replied to the tweet on Friday, jokingly writing, “What’s Facebook?”

Another Twitter user then jumped in, daring Musk to “Delete SpaceX page on Facebook if you’re the man?”

“I didn’t realize there was one,” Musk replied. “Will do.”

Despite SpaceX’s Facebook page having more than 2.6 million followers, Musk claimed he had “literally never seen it even once.”

Another user then posted a photo of Tesla’s Facebook page, suggesting that it should be the next to go. Musk agreed, saying that it “looks lame anyway.”

It’s the latest in a tiff between Musk and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, which began in 2016 when a SpaceX rocket launch failed, resulting in the destructio­n of one of Facebook’s internet satellites.

Zuckerberg had bemoaned “SpaceX’s launch failure,” saying his satellite “would have provided connectivi­ty to so many entreprene­urs” in Africa.

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