Elon Musk responded to a Twitter post by actor Sacha Baron Cohen calling for Facebook to be regulated over its content, with “#DeleteFacebook It’s lame.”
#DeleteFacebook It’s lame
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 8, 2020
Actor, Baron Cohen had asked in a tweet why regulators are allowing Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to “control the information seen by 2.5 billion people”. He says they would not allow one person to have similar control over water or electricity supplies.
“Facebook needs to be regulated by governments, not ruled by an emperor!” the actor and comedian said.
Baron Cohen criticises social media platforms, like Twitter, YouTube and others, describing them as “the greatest propaganda machine in history.”
His displeasure with Facebook is that it profits off propaganda by not fact-checking political advertising.
While Musk did not elaborate on why he thinks Facebook is “lame,” This is not the first time Elon Musk has publicly criticised Facebook or CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
In 2018, he deleted the official Facebook pages of Tesla and SpaceX. This was shortly after it came out that a political consulting firm, Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users without their permission.
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Musk tweeted at the time:
What’s Facebook?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 23, 2018
Musk, Tesla and Space X still has a personal account on Instagram despite Instagram being owned by Facebook.
Musk had previously said that using Instagram is “probably ok” so long as it remains “fairly independent” from its parent company.
He also questioned Zuckerberg’s grasp of artificial intelligence on Twitter. Apparently, both CEOs have differing views on the subject. “I’ve talked to Mark about this. His understanding of the subject is limited,” he said.
Zuckerberg believes artificial intelligence will help make cars safer and also help better diagnose illnesses. Musk, however, thinks it is humanity’s “greatest existential threat.”
Cohen and Musk’s criticism of Facebook also follows Stephen King’s announcement that he has quit Facebook over false information and inadequate protection of privacy.
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