{"id":1354,"date":"2018-03-23T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T21:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/site\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2018-03-23T21:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T02:39:50","slug":"elon-musk-deletes-tesla-and-spacex-facebook-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bnonews.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/elon-musk-deletes-tesla-and-spacex-facebook-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk deletes Tesla and SpaceX Facebook pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entrepreneur Elon Musk has deleted the Facebook pages of Tesla and SpaceX, providing support to a campaign which is calling on people to stop using the social networking website in response to a data scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Musk deleted the pages on late Friday morning in response to a tweet from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, who has called on people to delete their Facebook accounts. 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