"It is time. #deletefacebook."
That declaration came from Mr Brian Acton, co-founder of messaging service WhatsApp - itself a Facebook property, sold to the company for US$19 billion (S$25 billion) in 2014 - in a tweet after news of the social network's Cambridge Analytica scandal began to break.
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