‘Delete Facebook’ brought back by WhatsApp co-founder, adds to worst times for Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook saw what can be possibly termed as tumultuous times last week. It started with the proposal put across by Elizabeth Warren to break up tech companies, such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook. While Facebook was yet to comment on this foresight, it went down for billions of users worldwide, leading to a massive outrage on Twitter that consequently reignited the ‘Delete Facebook’ campaign. This mishap was immediately followed by the unfortunate terror attack on New Zealand mosque, the course for which was live-streamed by the shooter. The company reeled against the backlash but one significant voice rose amid this chaos.

Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp, who left Facebook in 2017 due to misaligned viewpoints over encryption and monetisation of the chat app, sounded off the ‘Delete Facebook’ campaign, this time in his speech at Stanford University. Acton asked the students to get rid of Facebook, which currently owns WhatsApp.