a previous hearing the hashtags delete facebook and where is trending on social media and the calls for the internet giant to take responsibility for the breach. we realize how important these companies are for example to elections right across europe and i think this is the year when politicians are woken up the public woke up and it's time for the tech companies to wake up because they don't get their act together they are going to face serious repercussions social networks will once celebrated as the saviors of democracy now critics are starting to ask where the social media should be more closely regulated. more on the fallout from the story now we have with us here in studio david meyer a journalist for fortune and author of the book control shift how technology affects you when you're bright and our social media editor jared reed with us good to have you both thank you very much start with you so one of the people who actually got rich off of facebook is not telling people to delete their accounts tell us about that it's brian acton he co-founded the messenger service whatsapp