Whatsapp co founder brian acton wants you to delete your facebook account

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton wants you to delete your Facebook account

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton wants you to delete your Facebook account on Business Standard. Recently, Facebook come under scrutiny after reports emerged that the data analytics company Cambridge Analytica accessed the company's user data for over 50 million accounts without their permission

Technology News The Mark Zuckerberg-led social media company Facebook in 2014 acquired instant messaging app WhatsApp, which had been co-founded in 2009 by former Yahoo employee Jan Koum and Brian Acton.

While Koum continues to lead the messaging platform, Acton has since left the company and started his own venture, Signal.

Now, Brian Acton, the estranged co-founder of WhatsApp, seems to have turned against Facebook.

In a Tweet that might raise many questions, Acton wrote, “It is time”, with a hashtag, to "#deletefacebook".

It is unclear what impelled Acton to write such a tweet. However, this is not the first time that he has voiced his concerns over Facebook. In 2009, he had applied for a job at Facebook and posted the following tweet soon after: Recently, Facebook come under scrutiny after reports emerged that data analytics company Cambridge Analytica accessed the company’s user data for over 50 million accounts without their permission.

The firm is also alleged to have helped Donald Trump in the US Presidential elections of 2016 by more effectively providing him target voters on Facebook than to his rival Hillary Clinton.

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