Ilon Mask removed the pages of SpaceX and Tesla in Facebook at the request of users

After the scandal with   giant data leakage from   Facebook flash mob # removed the phone speeding up   - Ilon Mask removed from   social networks of their companies Tesla and   SpaceX.

Why deleted

It's in   to some degree amusing story. Under one of the   entries in   tweet it took on   weakly. The guy under the nickname @serdarsprofile wrote Mask " delete facebook, if you   man. " As it turned out, Mask was not   at   course with   data leakage and   not immediately   understood in   than business. After chatting with   guy, Ilon disappeared on   a couple of hours, and   then returned with   The news is that Facebook has deleted the page Space X. And   his here   I was asked to repeat the trick with   page of Tesla. The mask is not   embarrassed and   deleted and   her, noticing that she looked all the same miserable and   he generally   almost not   used facebook.
AT   total for   both pages were 5   million subscribers.

More about   scandal with   Facebook

AT   2013, Professor of Cambridge University Alexander Kogan created another test application in   spirit of " find out, you   pretzel or gingerbread. " AND   for its passage it was necessary to open access to   data of your page. However, the application acted more cunningly and   accidentally asked at the same time to open access to   account data, which are in   friends   the user. AT   The test was passed 270 thousand people, but Kogan collected personal data 50   million users.

AT   early 2015, Kogan sold the data to Cambridge Analytica, which later used them   for manipulating   elections in   200 countries by   the whole world. As shown by the investigation of Channel 4, in   Facebook is not   could not   know about   accounting, but apparently decided to just hush up the story. Do not hush up   happened   - Now the action #deletefacebook is gaining momentum, investors are preparing to sue   social network because of the opaque leadership policy, and   Mark Zuckerberg lost a lot of money because of the company's share price decline.

More information about the scandal can be found here .

Source: Twitter