Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook

Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by toomuchtodo on Friday March 23, 2018 @02:17PM (#16661055)

A bit of a different though. Elon did not intentionally destroy the Falcon 9 in question, and SpaceX worked very hard to determine what caused the issue and rectify it for future flights. Zuckerberg knew for years what was going on with user data, and gave zero f*s until they were caught.

Substantially easier to throw shade (passive aggressively even) from the moral high ground.

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by koheripbal on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:29PM (#16662777)

Elon cares tremendously about bad press. He's specifically banned all reporters from filming launch or recovery attempts in case there are failures.

You'll notice that there are NO social media posts whenever there's a accident (of which there have been many).

Zuck drawing attention to it must have really pissed Elon off.

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by larkeith on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:18PM (#16664124)

Source? Anecdotally speaking, it seems that there's been about as much coverage for each failed launch as there has been for each successful one.

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by toss1 on Friday March 23, 2018 @06:34PM (#16663213)

Um, except when Elon posts video compilations of their failures... (seems to me they're pretty open)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2PWKdQzuU8

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by jccooper on Friday March 23, 2018 @08:04PM (#16663753)

They do that in a carefully controlled way, well after the event is too cold for the news cycle. And even then, some events that are too dicey-looking are never seen.

Mark, this is not a criticism. Given the way the media handles such things (i.e. sensationally and with minimal or just plain wrong context) it's really for the best.

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by marcell on Saturday March 24, 2018 @02:37AM (#16665206)

I'm confused--aren't the launches broadcast live via webstream?

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by jccooper on Saturday March 24, 2018 @10:57PM (#16670426)

Yes, but landings at sea tend to cause the video feed to go away, and it doesn't come back if anything goes wrong.

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by iggg on Saturday March 24, 2018 @08:34AM (#16666299)

I'm sure they have a delay.

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by Raphmedia on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:30PM (#16664679)

I don't understand why this is downvoted. This is exactly how a PR firm or department will handle those things.

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by greglindahl on Friday March 23, 2018 @06:41PM (#16663266)

What? The general public films all SpaceX launches and all landings on land, not to mention reporters.

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by jpindar on Saturday March 24, 2018 @01:47PM (#16667820)

>NO social media posts whenever there's a accident

Sometimes there are - in fact its a running joke that he calls them "rapid unscheduled disassemblies" (or something like that).

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by CodeCube on Friday March 23, 2018 @02:25PM (#16661138)

inb4 the conspiracy theories that the rocket blowing up was to set back a competitor to StarLink

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Re:Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages Af... by SmellyGeekBoy on Friday March 23, 2018 @02:36PM (#16661250)

I'm afraid that ship has already sailed...

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