Mark Zuckerberg’s power is unchecked, unprecedented, and un-American. That’s according to Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who in a New York Times op-ed Thursday called on the federal government to break up the company. We’ll talk about whether Facebook should be split into separate entities and whether a breakup would address ongoing concerns about the company’s failure to protect its users’ privacy and security.
Is It Time to Break Up Facebook?
Mark Zuckerberg's power is unchecked, unprecedented, and un-American. That's according to Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who in a New York Times op-ed Thursday called on federal government to break up the company. We'll talk about whether Facebook should be split into separate entities and whether a breakup would address ongoing concerns about the company's failure to protect its users' privacy and security.
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Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of the social-networking website Facebook. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Guests:
Antonio Garcia Martinez, former Facebook product manager; author, "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley;" contributing writer for WIRED
Tim Wu, professor, Columbia Law School; author, "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age"
James Pethokoukis, fellow, American Enterprise Institute; editor of AEIdeas