WhatsApp messaging service co-founder has urged users to "delete" Facebook amid a massive data harvesting scandal in which information of 50 million people was leaked allegedly to influence the 2016 US presidential election. WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton left Facebook in September last year … Read More

Brian Acton, co-founder of popular messaging app WhatsApp wants each and every Facebook user to delete their Facebook accounts permanently and leave the social media giant created by Mark Zuckerberg. Brian who recently founded a non-profit organization “The Signal Foundation” expressed his … Read More

“We started chatting back and forth. I think if I wasn't single I wouldn't have continued the chat,” Dahlbeck said, adding, “I had checked the picture on his WhatsApp profile and he was attractive.” The couple met after the initial message was sent, they also met the next day for …

Whatsapp co-founder Brian Acton has warned people to boycott Facebook days after the social network became embroiled in one of world's biggest data security scandals. In a Twitter post, he urged Facebook users to delete their accounts, following reports that marketing firm Cambridge Analytica had … Read More

Acton previously worked at Yahoo before co-founding WhatsApp, a cross-platform mobile messaging service in 2009. Five years later, Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion, including $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares, and another $3 billion in restricted stock units doled out to … Read More

In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $16 billion, making its co-founders — Jan Koum and Brian Acton — very rich. Koum is still leading WhatsApp. Acton, who is worth $6.5 billion according to The Verge, quit WhatsApp earlier this year to start his own foundation — the Signal Foundation. In …

Brian Acton, who co-founded WhatsApp with Jan Koum in 2009, has declared it's time for you to leave Facebook, following the recent scandal with Facebook's alleged indirect involvement in the US Elections of 2016. A little backstory in case you missed it – data mining and analytics firm Cambridge … Read …

Brian Acton, who co-founded WhatsApp with Jan Koum, sold the messaging platform to Facebook in 2014. It was a simpler time, long before all of the shit hit the fan for Facebook. Since November, we've found out that Facebook was used by Russian spies to influence elections and that it …

Brian Acton, co-founder of the popular encrypted messaging app WhatsApp, is turning against the company that made him rich: Facebook. In 2009, Acton, along with Jan Koum, created WhatsApp, a messaging application which relies on Wi-Fi, allows users to signal whether or not they are available, … Read More

“It is time. #deletefacebook” tweeted Brian Acton, the WhatsApp co-founder. Acton is the most prominent voice to use the #deletefacebook hashtag on Twitter after reports published Saturday said the data mining company Cambridge Analytica had allegedly harvested personal information from 50 million … Read More