During a press conference at Stanford University on Wednesday, WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton told students to delete Facebook, BuzzFeed News reports.
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.
“To be brutally honest, the curated networks — the open networks — struggle to make a decision what’s hate speech and what’s not hate speech.
Google struggles with what’s a good website and what’s a bad web site,” he said, as quoted by BuzzFeed News.The silicon valley entrepreneur’s appearance comes days after Zuckerberg announced on March 6 that his company can shift towards a “privacy-focused” platform.
Acton sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $19 billion in October 2014. He left the corporate some 3 years later, following Facebook’s decision to permit for ads on WhatsApp.
Earlier this month, Marketplace reported that millions of Facebook users left the platform in 2018. and people are finding other ways in which to remain in touch.During last week’s major Facebook and Instagram outage, 3 million people joined encrypted-messaging app telegram.
It’s not the primary time Acton in public encouraged users to delete Facebook. He tweeted “it is time. #deletefacebook” back in March 2018, mere days once the UK’s Channel 4 News published a report about informant Christoper wylie, WHO brought light to the Cambridge Analytica knowledge scandal.
Acton criticized Facebook’s motives and its failures to make sure the privacy of their users’ knowledge and wanted there was how out.“The capitalistic profit motive, or responsive to Wall Street, is what’s driving the growth of invasion of knowledge privacy and a lot of negative outcomes that we’re simply not happy with,” he said.
