Billionaire WhatsApp Cofounder Joins The #DeleteFacebook Movement

While it’s normal to see celebrities or active online personalities take things like the Cambridge Analytica scandal and all it entails more seriously, tech players often maintain discretion with regards to such matters. It seems WhatsApp co-founder, Brian Acton is not having any of it, however since he just joined the #DeleteFacebook movement.

Acton became a billionaire when Facebook bought WhatsApp for a staggering $19 billion in 2014, Business Insider reports. He stayed with the company for a while and then left back in September. This made Acton a definite former insider, which made his public sentiments particularly damaging for the company.

Facebook’s stocks have already fallen by a record 10 percent following the reports of the new scandal. If the momentum fueled by anger at the social network’s callous attitude towards user privacy increases, it could be looking at further losses.

After sending out a Tweet that read “It is time. #deletefacebook”, Acton has made no effort to explain his motives to the media. He did hint that he plans on deleting his Facebook account and was encouraging other people to do so with another Tweet, but that’s about it.

This scarcity of details is only made more pronounced by the fact that Acton doesn’t Tweet all that much, Fortune reports. His posts on the microblogging platform throughout one year can even be counted on one hand.

It seems like he doesn’t even use his own messaging service, WhatsApp, with his most exciting moments on the platform occurring during a brief burst of enthusiasm all the way back in 2012. With so little participation in the social media conversation despite the large role he played in creating one of its most influential services, Acton’s sentiments about Facebook becomes even more profound.

If someone like him is calling for the deletion of Facebook accounts, something very wrong must be happening.