Jan Koum will also step down from Facebook’s board of directors, a role he negotiated when WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $19bn in 2014, according to the Washington Post. But it is time for me to move on,” wrote Koum on his Facebook profile. In 2016, WhatsApp announced it would start sharing some user data, including phone numbers, with Facebook – a move that was deeply unpopular among European regulators, who ordered Facebook to stop collecting data from WhatsApp users and fined the company. #deletefacebook.”The first comment to appear below Koum’s Facebook post is a carefully worded statement from Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Those values will always be at the heart of WhatsApp.”A spokeswoman for WhatsApp declined to comment but pointed to Koum and Zuckerberg’s posts on Facebook.

Source: The Guardian April 30, 2018 22:41 UTC