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Amid the turmoil of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton told his Twitter followers to delete Facebook.

It is time. #deletefacebook
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) March 20, 2018

“It is time. #deletefacebook,” he wrote on the social media platform.
Acton has almost 21,000 Twitter followers.
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Facebook acquired WhatsApp for US$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:

Facebook turned me down. It was a great opportunity to connect with some fantastic people. Looking forward to life's next adventure.
— Brian Acton (@brianacton) August 3, 2009

Facebook has come under fire this week after reports emerged that political data analytics company Cambridge Analytica accessed the data of over 50 million users of the social media network without their permission.
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Cambridge Analytica got that data from the creator of a quiz taken by 270,000 Facebook users. That quiz creator passed the data to Cambridge Analytica against Facebook policy. Facebook knew about the data leak back in 2015, but the public only learned after reports in the New York Times and Observer over the weekend.
Cambridge Analytica is funded in large part by Robert Mercer, who donated money to President Trump’s election campaign, and it helped the Trump campaign target pollical ads on Facebook, but the firm says it did not use any data gained in this incident on the campaign.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg have remained quiet throughout the scandal, inviting yet more criticism from analysts and investors, and fuelling critics who argue for more regulation of big tech companies.
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Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 25, 2016. Photo: REUTERS/Mike Blake

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Alexander Nix, CEO of the London-based political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica leaves his offices through the back door in London on Tuesday. Photo: EPA

Alexander Nix, chief executive officer of Cambridge Analytica, leaves the company's offices in London, U.K., on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. The company's board said it suspended Nix, effective immediately, while an independent investigation is conducted. Photographer: Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

(180320) -- LONDON, March 20, 2018 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on March 20, 2018 shows the exterior of the office building of Cambridge Analytica in London, Britain. Cambridge Analytica, a British consulting company, was accused of harvesting data of up to 50 million Facebook users without permission and using the data to help politicians including U.S. President Donald Trump and the Brexit campaign. (Xinhua/Stephen Chung)

(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 25, 2015 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the F8 summit in San Francisco, California. Facebook shares plunged March 19, 2018 as the social media giant was pounded by criticism at home and abroad over revelations that a firm working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign harvested and misused data on 50 million members.Calls for investigations came on both sides of the Atlantic after Facebook responded to explosive reports of misuse of its data by suspending the account of Cambridge Analytica, a British firm hired by Trump's 2016 campaign.Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar and Republican John Kennedy called for Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg to appear before Congress, along with Google and Twitter's CEOs. / AFP PHOTO / Josh Edelson

epa06616484 Undated handout image released by Facebook showing servers at their data center in Prineville, Oregon, USA, 20 March 2018. A growing controversy in both the Great Britain and the US has raised questions about how Cambridge Analytica, a firm hired by US President Trump's 2016 election campaign, was able to gain access to private information on over more than 50 million Facebook users. EPA-EFE/FACEBOOK / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

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Facebook is suspending the Trump-affiliated data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, after learning that it failed to delete data that it had taken inappropriately from users of the social network, Facebook said late Friday. Photo: AFP

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