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This Article is From Mar 21, 2018

'Delete' Facebook, Says WhatsApp Co-Founder Brian Acton

'Delete' Facebook, Says WhatsApp Co-Founder Brian Acton
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014.

Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, on Tuesday asked users to delete social media platform Facebook, amid allegations of data leak of its users for political purposes. "It is time. #deletefacebook," Brian Acton tweeted to more than 23,000 of his followers. Facebook is facing flak after reports emerged that Cambridge Analytica, a London-based political data analytics firm, accessed the data of 50 million Facebook users without their permission. The firm, many years ago, received the user data from a Facebook app that purported to be a psychological research tool. However, Cambridge Analytica was not authorised to have that information. WhatsApp was bought by Facebook in 2014.
 

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