Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says Mark Zuckerberg's influence is staggering and that it is time to break up Facebook
and that's made Facebook dangerous Bloomberg : Facebook Breakup Call From Co-Founder Easier Said Than Done Charlotte Henry / The Mac Observer : Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Says The Company Should Be Broken up Stephanie Mlot / Geek.com : Facebook Co-Founder Wants to Break Up Facebook Firstpost Tech : Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes feels Mark Zuckerberg can no longer fix Facebook David McCabe / Axios : Big Tech critics turn to history for tools for cutting Facebook, Google and Amazon down to size. New York Times : 5 Takeaways From Chris Hughes's Call to Break Up Facebook Associated Press : Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes: Time to Break Up Company James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Time to break up Facebook, says co-founder Chris Hughes Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search : Silicon Valley Management Crises Escalate Alan Martin / Inquirer : Facebook co-founder says it's time to break up the company Bobby Hellard / IT PRO : Facebook rejects calls for it to be broken up Shira Ovide / Bloomberg : The Case Against Breaking Up Facebook Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing : Facebook sends Nick Clegg to rebut co-founder Chris Hughes' call for breakup Hannah Sparks / New York Post : How Chris Hughes and Facebook co-founders were cast in ‘Social Network’ Andy Meek / BGR : Even a Facebook co-founder thinks Mark Zuckerberg has way too much power Luke Stangel / Silicon Valley Business Journal : Facebook rejects cofounder's call to break up the tech giant and rein in Zuckerberg's ‘staggering’ influence Joe Rice-Jones / KnowTechie : Facebook's co-founder says it is time to split Facebook up Zak Doffman / Forbes : Facebook Hits Back After Co-Founder Slams Zuckerberg And Calls For Break-Up PYMNTS.com : Facebook Responds To Co-founder's Call For Breakup NPR : Co-Founder Chris Hughes Says It's Time To Break Up Facebook Morgan Gstalter / The Hill : Co-founder: Break up Facebook Sebastian Klovig Skelton / ComputerWeekly.com : Facebook co-founder: ‘It is time to break up Facebook’ Ian Bogost / The Atlantic : Breaking Up Facebook Isn't Enough Ryan Friedman / The Wrap : Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Calls for Breakup of Mark Zuckerberg's ‘Powerful Monopoly’ Ryan Maskell / WinBuzzer : Facebook Co-Founder Says Its Time to Break the Company's Monopoly Kieren McCarthy / The Register : America's favorite toothless watchdog FTC pleads with Congress to give it LESS power to tackle tech monopolies Hannah Murphy / Financial Times : Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes calls for its break-up Annie Gaus / TheStreet : Facebook Responds to Call From Its Co-Founder to Break Up the Company BBC : Facebook ‘auto-generated’ extremist video Molly McHugh / The Ringer : The Opposition to Facebook Now Extends to Mark Zuckerberg's Cofounders and Friends William Gayde / TechSpot : In lengthy op-ed, Facebook co-founder says it's time to regulate and break up Facebook Taylor Telford / Washington Post : Facebook's co-founder: 'It's time to break up Facebook' Lauren Feiner / CNBC : Facebook co-founder calls for the company to be broken up and says Zuckerberg has ‘unilateral control over speech’ Matthew Field / Telegraph : 'It's time to break up Facebook' to curb Mark Zuckerberg's power, says social network's co-founder Kris Holt / Engadget : Facebook co-founder urges FTC to break up the company Evan Greer / The Guardian : Mark Zuckerberg has to go. Here are 25 reasons why The Guardian : Facebook cofounder calls for company to break up over ‘unprecedented’ power Emily Stewart / Vox : Even Facebook's co-founder thinks it should be broken up Mashable : Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes wants to break up Facebook. Here's why. Eva Short / Silicon Republic : It's time to break up Facebook, says company co-founder Chris Hughes Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Facebook Co-Founder Calls for Breakup of Company Brett Molina / USA Today : Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes: Social network should be broken up Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Facebook co-founder, Chris Hughes, calls for Facebook to be broken up Rex Crum / Mercury News : Break up Facebook: co-founder calls for feds to split company apart Eric Lutz / Vanity Fair : Zuck's College Roommate Has Second Thoughts About Co-Founding Facebook Larry Dignan / ZDNet : Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues for a breakup of Facebook, but easier said than done Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac : Facebook cofounder: It's time to break up company, gov oversight of social media needed Madeline Roache / TIME : Facebook's Co-Founder Calls It a ‘Powerful Monopoly’ That Should Be Broken Up Todd Spangler / Variety : Facebook Should Be Broken Up Because Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘Unchecked Power,’ Company Co-Founder Says David Covucci / The Daily Dot : Zuckerberg's Facebook co-founder calls on U.S. to break up Facebook Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Facebook co-founder calls for breakup of Facebook John Johnson / Newser : Zuckerberg's Old Roommate Says Enough Is Enough Chris Morris / Fortune : ‘Unprecedented and Un-American’: Facebook Co-Founder Calls on Government to Break Company Up Tweets: Elizabeth Warren / @ewarren : Chris Hughes is right. Today's big tech companies have too much power—over our economy, our society, & our democracy. They've bulldozed competition, used our private info for profit, hurt small businesses & stifled innovation. It's time to #BreakUpBigTech. https://www.nytimes.com/... Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : All social networks capture and create human behavior. Some of that behavior is bad, sometimes in unforeseen ways. It's not clear that changing who owns those network, for example having FB ‘blue’ and WhatsApp in different companies, would change this. Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : Nick Clegg on monopolies in September 2017 vs Nick Clegg on monopolies in May 2019 pic.twitter.com/4x85iKz9ix Chris Hughes / @chrishughes : I'm calling for breaking up @Facebook in an essay in the @nytimes. FB has become too big and too powerful, and it's part of a trend in our economy of an increasing concentration of corporate power. We can fix this: break the company up and regulate it. https://www.nytimes.com/... Zephyr Teachout / @zephyrteachout : Zuckerberg: To rebut the claim I am too powerful, I will have the former UK Deputy Prime Minister publicly disavow his prior anti-monopoly stance (now that he is paid by me) and promise to meet with other world leaders to painstakingly tell them what regulation suits me best. https://twitter.com/... Alex Stamos / @alexstamos : I think these things can all be true:1) There are legitimate competition arguments for breaking up FB.2) Breaking up FB does not magically solve the underlying problems.3) This issue highlights fundamental contradictions in left-ish criticism of tech. https://twitter.com/... @pinboard : The Chris Hughes piece on Facebook today is excellent, and I'm not sure why people are dunking on him. We need regulation and antitrust action not because Zuckerberg is a villain, because this level of power is too much for any one person to handle https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... Anand Giridharadas / @anandwrites : What @chrishughes did today, in addition to being substantively right, is morally important. He served as a traitor to his class. In so doing, I hope he inspires many rich people who want to get on the right side of history to do inconvenient things. https://twitter.com/... Daphne Keller / @daphnehk : Chris Hughes' piece sets forth points that are widely made in expert discussions about Facebook today - with the added frisson of apostasy and gossip. It has one major aspect that confuses me, and second about which I think Hughes himself is confused. 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : I doubt it will change anyone's mind who's already decided that Chris is right, but reading through his argument for why Facebook needs to be broken it up... he seems to get nearly all of the details wrong. https://twitter.com/... Kevin Kelly / @kevin2kelly : Breaking up Facebook (into what?) will not remedy the issues of overuse, nor fake news, nor extremist views, nor privacy. Breakup is a romantic fantasy. Study the long history of anti-trust and AT&T, beginning in 1913. Jon Russell / @jonrussell : Real bombshell of an editorial from a Facebook co-founder — you can expect that the topic of breaking up FB and undoing Instagram and WhatsApp deals will at least start being discussed seriously at government level in US and potentially other countries https://www.nytimes.com/... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : Oops Nick Clegg. Pro tip I got from a movie: The Internet is written in ink. https://twitter.com/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : Maybe I'm missing something but there's nothing new or interesting in that Chris Hughes FB piece other than that it's coming from someone who got insanely rich by being Mark Zuckerberg's college roommate Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : a well argued, sober case for breaking up facebook...from one of its co-founders https://www.nytimes.com/... Charlie Beckett / @charliebeckett : It's amazing and quite indicative that Facebook thought hiring Nick Clegg would give them any ethical or political kudos. It's just confirmed how shameless they can be. https://twitter.com/... Antonio García Martínez / @antoniogm : He's also correct FB's ingestion of IG/WA grants it an inescapable monopoly on user demand for social media, but with little in the way of consumer benefit (many don't even realize IG/WA are owned by FB). pic.twitter.com/xbFXA0mkrP Antonio García Martínez / @antoniogm : Perhaps more importantly, Facebook has a monopsony on user attention (i.e. a huge aggregator of it, effectively a supplier of eyeballs), which grants it huge leverage over actual media producers and advertisers. I get into the biz details here: https://www.wired.com/... Antonio García Martínez / @antoniogm : Consider the huge advantage the fused FB/IG/WA now has in backed end operational and technical integration. Scaling to billions, both technically and now even more importantly, legally and operationally, is what startups don't do well. FB will just hose any upstart. Bhaskar Sunkara / @sunraysunray : After almost bringing down The New Republic, Chris Hughes is on to bigger companies. https://twitter.com/... Owen Williams / @ow : uhhhhhh nailed it? https://twitter.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : There's more hand-waving in this Facebook statement on Chris Hughes' op-ed than there was in the last episode of Fosse/Verdon*(*I do not watch this show but assuming it involves a lot of Fosse choreography) https://twitter.com/... Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : i mean that's just like your opinion, mannnn https://twitter.com/... Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8 : Here's FB's comment on the Chris Hughes op-ed that appeared in the NYT today. pic.twitter.com/DurZezEkJ2 Melinda Byerley / @mjb_sf : “i made some sweet dough but now I'll speak up” https://twitter.com/... Marietje Schaake / @marietjeschaake : Calls for regulating or breaking up Facebook (and other tech giants) were easily labeled as though driven by European jealousy for a long time. Now one of Facebook's co-founders pinpoints the risks of a lack of oversight and accountability here ↘️ https://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : It's quite wild to me that we're likely to see Facebook punished for the “crime” of getting Trump elected while he Teflon Don's his way through every scandal. It's interesting to read Chris Hughes recent op-ed with the context below from the Obama era.https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... David Klion / @davidklion : Chris Hughes clearly read Frank Foer's book and decided, on balance, he would rather be on Frank's side of history than Mark Zuckerburg's. Good for him. This seems like a big deal. https://twitter.com/... Edmund Lee / @edmundlee : What prompted this? That's the story. https://twitter.com/... Kim-Mai Cutler / @kimmaicutler : None of the ideas in here are new. They have been repeated for a few years by a small coterie of neo-Brandeisians. Yet this is the most powerful statement because of who said it. https://twitter.com/... @towcenter : “The most problematic aspect of Facebook's power is Mark's unilateral control over speech. There is no precedent for his ability to monitor, organize and even censor the conversations of two billion people.” -Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes https://www.nytimes.com/... Casey Newton / @caseynewton : Wow. Chris cofounded Facebook and now he says the government should require it to sell off WhatsApp and Instagram. Read the essay —> https://twitter.com/... Alex Heath / @alexeheath : What vague calls to “break up” Facebook miss:- All of these apps (Insta, WhatsApp, etc.) are now tightly integrated into FB (esp Insta). Unclear how they would even be able to function on their own now. (1/2)https://www.nytimes.com/ ... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : This is an example of the uniquely American perspective that competition solves every market problem instead of regulation. However in reality many markets tend towards oligopolies where there are so few players that competition is nominal so regulation still needed. Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Facebook co-founder argues it's time to break up the company. Facebook has 2.3B monthly users, 1.6B & Instagram 1.3B. Breaking up a blunt tool. Each already so big that breaking it up doesn't change fact 1 company choosing what billion+ voters... https://www.nytimes.com/... Christopher Mims / @mims : I don't think breaking up Facebook will improve how it manhandles democracy.I do think it would increase competition in new, interesting and useful ways. https://twitter.com/... Elysse Morgan / @elyssemorgan : Radical and well reasoned 👇 https://twitter.com/... Doug Saunders / @dougsaunders : “I'm disappointed in myself and the early Facebook team for not thinking more about how the algorithm could change our culture, influence elections and empower nationalist leaders.” https://www.cnn.com/... @cnn : Chris Hughes helped Mark Zuckerberg transform Facebook from a dorm-room project into a real business. Now, he's calling for the company to be broken up. https://www.cnn.com/... Kara Swisher / @karaswisher : Very well orchestrated I would say. Love to know the back story though I can guess pretty well https://twitter.com/... Zephyr Teachout / @zephyrteachout : It's Time to Break Up Facebook by Chris Hughes!!! “The government must hold Mark accountable. For too long, lawmakers have .. overlooked their responsibility to ensure that Americans are protected and markets are competitive.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes says it's time to break up the company. My bet is that this will land harder in Silicon Valley than Elizabeth Warren's pledge to break up Big Tech. https://www.nytimes.com/... Owen Williams / @ow : It makes me uncomfortable that all these dudes grow a conscience after getting dirty rich, but Facebook's co-founder coming out and saying that the company should be broken up feels like it might be a turning point https://www.nytimes.com/... Eli Pariser / @elipariser : “Facebook isn't afraid of a few more rules. It's afraid of an antitrust case and of the kind of accountability that real government oversight would bring.” — FB cofounder @chrishughes here: https://www.nytimes.com/... Kelsey Sutton / @kelseymsutton : Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes calls for a Facebook breakup. Zuckerberg, he writes, “has created a leviathan that crowds out entrepreneurship and restricts consumer choice.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Mark Scott / @mscott : “It's Time to Break Up Facebook”......."I'm disappointed in myself and the early Facebook team for not thinking more about how the News Feed algorithm could change our culture, influence elections and empower nationalist leaders." https://www.nytimes.com/... Jim Roberts / @nycjim : Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes: “The government must hold Mark accountable.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Eli Pariser / @elipariser : This is BIG: My friend and FB cofounder @chrishughes wrote a 6000 word piece for the NYT today on why it's time to break up Facebook. Important read. https://www.nytimes.com/... Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes: “We are a nation with a tradition of reining in monopolies, no matter how well intentioned the leaders of these companies may be. Mark's power is unprecedented and un-American. “It is time to break up Facebook.” https://www.nytimes.com/...