https://qz.com/1234004/brian-acton-got-rich-selling-whatsapp-to-facebook-now-he-wants-you-to-deletefacebook/ >As Facebook faces fallout from a major scandal involving the use of its data by Cambridge Analytica, a British firm that profiled and targeted voters for the Trump campaign, public figures in the tech industry are speaking out against the social network. Chief among them is one of the biggest beneficiary’s of Facebook’s success. >Brian Acton, one of the co-founders of WhatsApp, jumped on the trending #deleteFacebook Twitter hashtag on on Tuesday evening (March 20) with a short tweet.