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SAN FRANCISCO — Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, which Facebook bought for $16 billion, on Tuesday urged people to delete their accounts on the giant social network.
“It’s time,” wrote Acton, who quit Facebook earlier this year to start a foundation. He added the hashtag #DeleteFacebook.
The remark comes amid growing public outrage over the misuse of the private information of tens of millions Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica, the firm that claimed it helped Donald Trump win the White House.
The news broke over the weekend and has ignited a full-blown crisis, with U.S. and European lawmakers demanding hearings and investigations underway by the Federal Trade Commission and two state attorneys general.
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