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During a public appearance at Stanford University on Wednesday, WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton told students to delete Facebook, BuzzFeed News<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p> He also criticized the profit models driving tech giants like Facebook and Google and how ineffective they tend to be at moderating content on their platforms.<\/p> “To be brutally honest, the curated networks — the open networks — struggle to decide what’s hate speech and what’s not hate speech. […] Google struggles with what’s a good website and what’s a bad website,” he said, as quoted by BuzzFeed News<\/em>. “And we give them the power. That’s the bad part. We buy their products. We sign up for these websites. Delete Facebook, right?”<\/p> The Silicon Valley entrepreneur’s appearance comes days after Zuckerberg announced on March 6 that his company will shift towards a “privacy-focused” platform<\/a>.<\/p> Acton sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion<\/a> in October 2014. He left the company some three years later, following Facebook’s decision<\/a> to allow for ads on WhatsApp.<\/p> Earlier this month, Marketplace <\/em>reported<\/a> that millions of Facebook users left the platform in 2018. And people are finding other ways to stay in touch: during last week’s major Facebook and Instagram outage<\/a>, three million<\/a> people joined encrypted-messaging app Telegram.<\/p> It’s not the first time Acton publicly encouraged users to delete Facebook. He tweeted<\/a> “it is time. #deletefacebook” back in March 2018, mere days after the UK’s Channel 4 News <\/em>published a report about whistleblower Christoper Wylie, who brought light to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal<\/a>.<\/p> Acton criticized Facebook’s motives and its failures to ensure the privacy of their users’ data and wished there was a way out. “The capitalistic profit motive, or answering to Wall Street, is what’s driving the expansion of invasion of data privacy and [..] a lot of negative outcomes that we’re just not happy with,” he said.<\/p> “I wish there were guardrails there. I wish there was ways to rein it in. I have yet to see that manifest, and that scares me.”<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>The WhatsApp Cofounder Who Sold To Facebook For $19 Billion Tells Students To Delete Facebook<\/a> [BuzzFeed News<\/em>] More on #deletefacebook:<\/strong> Don’t Just Delete Facebook — Delete Well<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post WhatsApp Cofounder Tells Students to Delete Facebook<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Originally posted here: Delete Facebook During a public appearance at Stanford University on Wednesday, WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton told students to delete Facebook, BuzzFeed News reports . Continue reading “It is Time”<\/h2>
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