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WhatsApp co-founder joins campaign for users to delete Facebook app

One of the co-founders of messaging app WhatsApp has joined the #deletefacebook train urging Facebook users to get rid of the app due to recent revelation of data breach on over 50 million accounts.

Brian Acton, along with business partner Jan Koum, who both founded the instant messaging app in 2009, before Facebook bought over the platform in 2014 for $19 billion, are urging Facebook users to be wary of the social media platform.

This comes as the Cambridge Analytica scandal gathers momentum and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been asked to testify in front of a UK parliamentary committee to address the allegations of data misuse.

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The revelation of the alleged data breach has prompted a #deletefacebook hashtag, urging users to get rid of their accounts, for fears that Cambridge Analytica is only one of a whole host of companies using Facebook data without permission.

Acton left the company earlier this year to start his own not-for-profit foundation, which sounds like he might have had a crisis of conscience.

He has also invested $50 million into a new messaging app Signal, which is independently owned, in a bid to increase privacy and encrypted messaging.

 

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