Elon Musk Criticizes Facebook, Promotes Signal After Capitol Riot

Elon Musk, a technology billionaire anticipated to potentially soon attain the position of the world’s wealthiest individual, and a prominent figure in the realm of tech innovation, maintained his recent pattern of voicing criticism towards Facebook through a Twitter message late Wednesday evening. This followed the disturbance at the U.S. Capitol building instigated by supporters of then-President Trump. Musk disseminated a meme implying that Facebook’s origins ultimately contributed to the day’s regrettable and embarrassing occurrences.

Musk, who has previously leveraged his substantial online presence (with approximately 42.5 million Twitter followers) to circulate inaccurate information to his audience, particularly concerning COVID-19 and its impact, subsequently expressed a lack of astonishment on Thursday morning regarding WhatsApp’s updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. These changes will require all WhatsApp users to share their data with Facebook.

The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX further suggested utilizing Signal, a secure messaging application that employs end-to-end encryption as a standard feature and operates on open-source principles. It is worth noting that if you choose to act on Musk’s recommendation, activating the app’s “disappearing messages” function will provide an additional level of security for both parties involved in the communication.

Musk has demonstrated a consistent stance against Facebook, which included the removal of his personal account, as well as the accounts belonging to Tesla and SpaceX, in 2018 during the initial #deletefacebook movement. This action occurred after details of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal were brought to light.