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WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, that contacted customers to delete Facebook last March at the elevation of the social media titan's information breach rumor, called himself a "sellout" this week for approving Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's $22 billion offer to purchase his firm in 2014.

" I offered my users' privacy to a larger benefit," Acton stated in an interview with Forbes published Wednesday. "I chose and also a concession. As well as I deal with that on a daily basis."

Acton, that co-founded the messaging service together with Jan Koum, quickly left Facebook in September 2017 under vague situations. The choice expense Acton concerning $850 countless Facebook supply alternatives that had not vested at the time of his exit.

Koum additionally left Facebook earlier this year amid supposed disagreements over Facebook's cybersecurity methods and also prepare for WhatsApp. The founders of Instagram, which is likewise owned by Facebook, left the company this week over supposedly varying visions for the photo-sharing application.

Acton stated he chose not to seek a settlement with Facebook partially since the social media sites giant asked him to authorize a nondisclosure agreement during initial negotiations.

Facebook received widespread objection last March after several reports revealed the personal information of as many as 87 million users was exposed without consent by Cambridge Analytica, a British information analytics firm that was active during the 2016 political election cycle. The discovery led Congressional leaders to contact Zuckerberg and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to respond to inquiries regarding the website's data techniques at a collection of public hearings.

Hours after the Cambridge Analytica data violation became public knowledge, 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, including Zuckerberg, about how to generate income from WhatsApp. Facebook officials supposedly pressed for WhatsApp to include targeted advertising and marketing to expand revenue.

The WhatsApp co-founder additionally used something of a defense of the social networks giant, keeping in mind that Facebook "isn't the bad guy."

"I consider them as simply very good businessmen," he claimed.

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