Facebook co-founder says it is time to break up the company – Reuters

(Reuters) – Facebook Inc co-founder and worn Mark Zuckerberg roommate Chris Hughes has called for the wreck up of the social community in an idea part in the Unusual York Times.

“We are a nation with a custom of reining in monopolies, no topic how successfully intentioned the leaders of these companies would possibly per chance well per chance also presumably be. Mark’s power is unheard of and un-American,” Hughes wrote on Thursday.

Facebook owns the greatest social community with bigger than 2 billion users internationally. It additionally owns WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, each and each ancient by bigger than 1 billion people.

Hughes co-based Facebook in 2004 at Harvard with the company’s Chief Govt Officer Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz. He stop Facebook in 2007 and later said in a LinkedIn put up that he made half of a thousand million greenbacks for his three years of work.

“It’s been 15 years since I co-based Facebook at Harvard, and I haven’t worked at the company in a decade. However I in actuality feel a technique of madden and responsibility,” said Hughes, who later changed into a net based strategist for Barack Obama throughout the 2008 presidential campaign.

The corporate did no longer without lengthen answer to requests for comment.

In one amongst a set of security and privateness scandals to hit the company, Facebook is accused of inappropriately sharing files belonging to 87 million users with the now-defunct British political consulting company Cambridge Analytica.

Hughes said he closing met with Zuckerberg in the summertime of 2017, several months forward of the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke.

“Mark is a valid, form person. However I’m offended that his specialize in development led him to sacrifice security and civility for clicks,” Hughes said.

“And I’m jumpy that Mark has surrounded himself with a team that boosts his beliefs as a change of mighty them.”

Hughes is rarely any longer by myself in asking for wreck-up of Facebook. Some lawmakers hang called for federal privateness law and anti-belief action to wreck up huge tech companies.

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren in March vowed to wreck up Facebook, Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google if elected U.S. president to advertise opponents in the tech sector.