# Stephen King, Elon Musk Criticize Social Media Policies **URL:** \ **Category:** News & Articles\ **Tags:** tools, social-media, news\ **Created:** [February 3, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/stephen-king-elon-musk-criticize-social-media-policies/68219 "2020-02-03T03:10:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheJoker](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/thejoker/32/22660_2.png) [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/stephen-king-elon-musk-criticize-social-media-policies/68219/1 "2020-02-03T03:10:18Z")
## CNN’s update about best-selling author Stephen King: ![Stephen King quits facebook](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/8/3/8398e9d30770e155f157318f63840e862fb240cf.jpeg) [https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1223425267831574534?s=20](https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1223425267831574534?s=20) > “I’m quitting Facebook,” the author said on Twitter Friday. “[Not comfortable with the flood of false information that’s allowed](https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/02/us/stephen-king-quits-facebook-trnd/index.html) in its political advertising, nor am I confident in its ability to protect its users’ privacy…” - _His Facebook profile has since been deleted._ King encouraged his fans to follow him on Twitter. But meanwhile… Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Sunday [slammed Twitter and Google for the rise in trolling networks and scams](https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/elon-musk-slams-twitter-google-for-rising-scams-fake-bots/story-alKxypSEmB8Ahjnjfc2E0H.html) via fake bots on both the platforms… - > “The crypto scam level on Twitter is reaching new levels. This is not cool,” Musk reacted to a follower’s tweet. “Report as soon as you see it. Troll/bot networks on Twitter are a _dire_ problem for adversely affecting public discourse and ripping people off,” he continued. _He also criticised Google for allowing scammers to flourish. “Trolls/bots just need to be deemphasized relative to probable real people who aren’t being paid to push an agenda or scam. Google still shows bs/scam pages, they’re just several clicks away,” Musk stressed._ And elsewhere, criticisms of Facebook and Google continued: in a new interview, venture capitalist and tech critic Roger McNamee specifically [singled out Facebook and Google for their roles in spreading disinformation](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/roger-mcnamee-on-climate-change-anti-vaxxing-white-supremacy-120859801.html)… “[T]hey’re the reason we can’t fix climate change,” McNamee, author of the book “Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe,” said this week on the _[Yahoo Finance show]_ Final Round. "They’re the reason why we have an epidemic of measles due to the anti-vaxers. They’re the reason why white supremacy and gun violence are on the rise because they empower the most disaffected people in society, and they give them a disproportionate political voice… > _“If we want to do something about climate change or gun violence or white supremacy or anti-vaxers, we’re going to have to fix Facebook and Google..”_