Parmy Olson: WhatsApp’s no-ads promise was too good to last under Meta’s ownership

The app’s founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton were deadset against ads on this chat platform, but when they sold it in 2014 to Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook (now Meta), they couldn't have expected its new owner not to monetize its eyeballs. But then again, they made big money. And money talks.

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