Facebook Exec Calls WhatsApp Co-founder Brian Acton 'Low Class'
Denying WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton's claims that Facebook CEO Marker Zuckerberg tried to undermine the instant messaging app'southward encryption engineering science, a top Facebook executive called Acton "low-class".
Acton started WhatsApp with January Koum. Facebook acquired the messaging service about four years agone for $22 billion. Acton quit Facebook a year ago, and Koum too left the company in April.
In an interview with Forbes, published on Wed, Acton alleged that Zuckerberg was in a rush to make money from the messaging service and undermine elements of its encryption engineering science, CNBC reported.
Slamming Acton for his allegations, Facebook's David Marcus, who ran Facebook'due south messaging products before starting the blockchain group earlier this twelvemonth, said that the global ringlet-out of end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp happened after the acquisition, and with Zuckerberg's full support.
"Yes, Jan Koum played a fundamental role in convincing Mark of the importance of encryption, only from that point on, it was never questioned," Marcus wrote in a Facebook post, expressing his "personal views".
"Mark'south view was that WhatsApp was a private messaging app, and encryption helped ensure that people'southward messages were truly individual," he added.
Speaking on the concern model, Marcus said that Zuckerberg protected WhatsApp for a very long period of time.
Acton, according to Marcus, actively irksome-played the execution of a paid messaging service.
"… while advocating for concern messaging, and being given the opportunity to build and deliver on that promise, Brian actively ho-hum-played the execution, and never truly went for it," Marcus wrote.
"Lastly — phone call me old fashioned. But I discover attacking the people and company that made you a billionaire, and went to an unprecedented extent to shield and arrange you lot for years, low-form," he said.
"It's really a whole new standard of low-form."
Facebook got another jolt this week when Instagram founders Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom quit the company late on Monday.
Founded in 2010, Instagram was bought past Facebook for $1 billion in 2012.
Source: https://beebom.com/top-facebook-exec-whatsapp-brian-acton-low-class/
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