Nearly two years have passed since Elon Musk moved his tech companies, Space X and Tesla, out of Facebook, and it appears there is no getting back for the influential executive. Musk has again called the platform, which boasts of more than two billion active users, "lame" and encouraged his Twitter followers to delete the application.
In March 2018, the Tesla CEO deleted the Facebook page of Space X and Tesla and later on explained that his businesses having a presence on the social network was news to him at that time. He described the site as lame and a tool that was never of use to him.
A few months later, in the same year, Musk also deleted his Instagram account, which he earlier dubbed as "fairly independent." It's not clear, though, if his decision to ditch Instagram was motivated by the belief that the platform, also owned by Facebook, has become more like its parent company.
As noted by CNBC, Musk was not the lone tech figure in the business of bashing Facebook. In the same year, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak made his exit from the site, which, according to him, is a tool in which users willingly give up their privacy.
Following the deletion of his Facebook account, Wozniak said using the site is no longer on his list of suggested online activities to people.
"There are many different kinds of people, and [for] some, the benefits of Facebook are worth the loss of privacy. But to many like myself, my recommendation ... to most people is you should figure out a way to get off Facebook," the tech industry icon was reported as saying.
Another prominent name actively campaigning against Facebook is Hollywood actor and director Sacha Baron Cohen. In fact, it was Baron Cohen who triggered the latest rant spilled out by Musk.
A twitter post from the comedian questioned the wisdom of allowing the social media giant to control the information of its billions of users unregulated.
That post triggered a reply from Musk, and per CNN the Tesla chief declared: "#DeleteFacebook It's lame."
Prior to the exchange, Baron Cohen has been passionate about his criticisms of the various social media sites, which according to him, "as the greatest propaganda machine in history."
Mostly, the actor has been singling out Facebook on his diatribes and frequently turns his ire on the company's co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Baron Cohen said Zuckerberg could be likened to an emperor, and governments have allowed him to access and keep billions of personal data without a semblance of regulation.
For its part, Facebook has maintained that its policy strictly prohibits hate speech, but critics insisted the site must enforce serious fact-checking.
