Former WhatsApp business chief expresses huge remorse over sale to Facebook
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`Nobody knew in the beginning that Facebook would become a Frankenstein monster that devoured user data and spat out dirty money.` What you need to know WhatsApp`s former head of business has expressed huge remorse over the sale of the app to Facebook. Neeraj Arora says the company promised it would not introduce ads, mine user data, or use cross-platform tracking. He lamented that WhatsApp is now `a shadow of the product we poured our hearts into` and that he and others regret joining Facebook. The former Chief Business Officer of WhatsApp, Neeraj Arora, has expressed huge remorse over the part he played in selling to Facebook in 2014, stating the platform is now a shadow of what it once was. In an extensive thread on Twitter Arora wrote: In 2014, I was the Chief Business Officer of WhatsApp. And I helped negotiate the $22 billion sale to Facebook. Today, I regret it. Arora says that after reposting an offer in 2012/13, Facebook (now Meta), came back with an ...