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Original Title: TIL that Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, left Facebook in 2017 over a dispute on WhatsApp monetization and claims he was coached to mislead EU regulators about data merging. In 2018, he supported #DeleteFacebook, saying it was the right time as pressure mounted on the company.
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Also he co-founded signal
No he didn’t. He co founded the Signal Tech Foundation, together with the creator of Signal, Marlinspike.