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KUALA LUMPUR – AirAsia group CEO Tony Fernandes left Facebook on Sunday to protest the live broadcast of the New Zealand mosque shooting.
The founder of the budget company, an active user of social media, has kept his Twitter and Instagram accounts open. Fernandes has decided to leave Facebook following the Christchurch mbadacre on Friday, after being himself a "victim" of various allegations on Facebook, which the suspect aired on the current social media site.
"Facebook could have done more to stop some of these," Fernandes said in a tweet to its 670,000 subscribers before deleting it. "You have to clean up, not just think about finances," he said.
Brenton Tarrant was arrested after being involved in a shooting in two mosques. He killed 50 people and wounded many others gathered for Friday prayers. He recorded live shots on Facebook. Although the article was removed shortly thereafter, the video quickly spread to other platforms, sparking a debate on the role of social media in crime.
Fernandes frequently uses social media to promote AirAsia and Queens Park Rangers, his professional football club that plays in England's second division.
He joins well-known personalities such as Tesla's Elon Musk and Apple's co-founder, Steve Wozniak, who said they would delete their Facebook accounts to protest the company's leakage of personal data. of social media in 2018.
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