SAN FRANCISCO — WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum is
breaking ties with his company's parent, Facebook, amid a privacy scandal that has dogged the social network for weeks.
It breaks all ties with the company's current design language with the exception of the grille.
Not exact matches
Many
companies have
broken ties with the National Rifle Association, and the House of Representatives passed a bill to fund more security measures in schools.
The lieutenant governor of Georgia on Monday raised eyebrows when he announced on Twitter he would reject tax
breaks for the Atlanta - based Delta Air Lines should the
company bow to social media pressure urging the firm to cut
ties with the National Rifle Association.
Just this May during 350.org's Global Divestment Mobilization, thousands of people attended over 260 events in 45 countries on 6 continents to put pressure on institutions to
break their financial
ties with fossil fuel
companies.
News
broke this weekend that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm
with ties to President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, accessed information from 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge, and might have kept that data even after Facebook told the
company to delete it.