Elon Musk Urges Everyone to Delete Facebook: 'It's Lame'

Musk is right, of course. Sh*t's lame.

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The world has been reminded of Facebook's abject lameness thanks to a timely Elon Musk tweet.

Over the weekend, the SpaceX founder offered his assessment via a reply to a tweet shared earlier this month by Who Is America? star and creator Sacha Baron Cohen in which Facebook boss Mark Fuckersplurge was mocked as an emperor-like figure in the social media wars.

We don’t let 1 person control the water for 2.5 billion people.

We don’t let 1 person control electricity for 2.5 billion people.

Why do we let 1 man control the information seen by 2.5 billion people?

Facebook needs to be regulated by governments, not ruled by an emperor! pic.twitter.com/o4hNRFNpgt

— Sacha Baron Cohen (@SachaBaronCohen) February 5, 2020

Musk replied by giving a boost to the #DeleteFacebook hashtag and declaring, with exciting accuracy, "It's lame." 

#DeleteFacebook It’s lame

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2020

Of course, Musk long ago made his opinions on Facebook well-known by removing the official Tesla and SpaceX pages from the increasingly shitty platform. That move, perCNN, arrived in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica election scandal.

Earlier this month, it was reported that Facebook had agreed to pay a $550 million privacy-related settlement in Illinois. The suit in question alleged that the site had broken the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act.

Musk, meanwhile, recently made headlines for asserting that working at Tesla does not necessarily require a high school diploma. 

A PhD is definitely not required. All that matters is a deep understanding of AI & ability to implement NNs in a way that is actually useful (latter point is what’s truly hard). Don’t care if you even graduated high school.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2020

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