facebook on the other hand has not always been the most transparent company and signal it is funded by brian acton an entrepreneur who sold whatsapp to facebook for 22 $1000000000.00 making himself a billionaire several times over in the process now act unless facebook and whatsapp and 2017 and later claimed that facebook was a laying the groundwork to sure of targeted ads and facilitated commerce. messaging and whatsapp and following that can bridge analytical scandal act in tweet it it's time hash tag go lead facebook for boom bust i'm sorry to have injure r.t. . joining me now to go further and up on this story is boom bust co-host and investigative journalist bones fawn all right then we've got 2 sides saying different things here so do you believe that signals out account was actually polled as they claim or was this a publicity stunt as facebook claims yeah i really don't know i mean facebook makes a good case for why it was just a stunt you know obviously signals as it wasn't but i don't think it really matters whether or not this book actually pulled the ads because because either way sign