Amid the turmoil of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton on Tuesday told his Twitter followers to delete Facebook.
"It is time. #deletefacebook," he wrote on the social media platform.
Acton has almost 21,000 Twitter followers.
Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion in 2014. Acton remained with the company for several years before quitting to start the Signal Foundation earlier this year. His WhatsApp co-founder, Jan Koum, still leads the company and sits on Facebook's board.
Acton also applied for a job at Facebook in 2009, and posted about his rejection on Twitter at the time: Full story...
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