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After selling his company to Facebook for $19B, Brian Acton joins #deleteFacebook
Brian Acton, the co-founder of messaging service WhatsApp (which Facebook bought in 2014 for $19 billion), is now joining the chorus of the #deletefacebook movement. It is time. #deletefacebook — Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018 A tipster alerted us to the fact that Acton made the same call… on Facebook… as well. Since the […]
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It turns out even $19 billion isn’t enough to convince people of the merits of Facebook.
In what will surely be another blow to Facebook, WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton appears to have joined the growing movement to leave the social network.
In a tweet, Acton said that “it is time,” adding the hashtag #deletefacebook.
It is time#deletefacebook
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018
He didn’t elaborate, but Acton, who previously headed engineering for WhatsApp, is a well-known advocate for privacy and encryption.
The WhatsApp cofounder left the company six months ago, four years after Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion (the acquisition netted Acton as much as $3 billion from the deal). After leaving, he joined the Signal Foundation, a nonprofit organization that oversees the encrypted messaging app Signal. Read more…
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View More Even the founder of WhatsApp thinks you should delete FacebookEven the founder of WhatsApp thinks you should delete Facebook
It turns out even $19 billion isn’t enough to convince people of the merits of Facebook.
In what will surely be another blow to Facebook, WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton appears to have joined the growing movement to leave the social network.
In a tweet, Acton said that “it is time,” adding the hashtag #deletefacebook.
It is time#deletefacebook
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018
He didn’t elaborate, but Acton, who previously headed engineering for WhatsApp, is a well-known advocate for privacy and encryption.
The WhatsApp cofounder left the company six months ago, four years after Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion (the acquisition netted Acton as much as $3 billion from the deal). After leaving, he joined the Signal Foundation, a nonprofit organization that oversees the encrypted messaging app Signal. Read more…
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