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WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, who contacted customers to erase Facebook last March at the height of the social media titan's information breach detraction, called himself a "sellout" today for approving Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's $22 billion deal to purchase his company in 2014.

" I offered my customers' personal privacy to a bigger benefit," Acton stated in an interview with Forbes released Wednesday. "I decided and a compromise. And also I cope with that daily."

Acton, that co-founded the messaging service alongside Jan Koum, abruptly left Facebook in September 2017 under unclear circumstances. The decision expense Acton about $850 countless Facebook supply choices that had not vested at the time of his departure.

Koum additionally left Facebook earlier this year amidst purported disputes over Facebook's cybersecurity practices and prepare for WhatsApp. The co-founders of Instagram, which is additionally possessed by Facebook, left the company today over supposedly differing visions for the photo-sharing app.

Acton claimed he opted not to go after a negotiation with Facebook partly because the social media sites giant asked him to sign a nondisclosure contract throughout initial settlements.

Facebook obtained prevalent objection last March after multiple records disclosed the individual data of as many as 87 million customers was exposed without consent by Cambridge Analytica, a British data analytics company that was active throughout the 2016 election cycle. The revelation led Legislative leaders to call on Zuckerberg and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to respond to concerns about the website's data practices at a collection of public hearings.

Hours after the Cambridge Analytica information violation came to be open secret, Acton created on Twitter that "it is time" to delete Facebook, the firm that made him a billionaire.

Acton told Forbes that his choice to leave Facebook came amidst encounter the company's management, consisting of Zuckerberg, regarding how to generate income from WhatsApp. Facebook officials allegedly pressed for WhatsApp to include targeted advertising to grow revenue.

The WhatsApp co-founder likewise supplied something of a defense of the social media sites giant, noting that Facebook "isn't the bad guy."

"I consider them as simply great businessmen," he stated.

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