https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paxdxb/whatsapp-cofounder-brian-acton-delete-facebook

The guy who sold his company to Facebook for $19 billion is now telling people to get off Facebook.

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 may have “substantially contributed” to genocide in Myanmar. In the last week, the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal continues to bring new aspects of the social network’s inner workings to light.