Why breaking up Facebook is actually a terrible idea

May 10, 2019 editor

Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes said Facebook’s power is so great across the tools billions of people use that it needs to be stopped.
And he’s right.
But while his solution to break Facebook up into separately traded companies – Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp – is an emotionally satisfying thought, it is flawed.
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Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes has made a compelling case about why Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are too powerful.

The company hasn’t just been sloppy with its privacy practices, as Hughes wrote in a 6,000-word opinion piece in The New York Times, it’s been deceitful, promising its users for years that it takes privacy seriously when behind the scenes it’s done everything from tricking people into handing over their email-address books (and then storing them) to using a VPN app to track people, including teens (a VPN is supposed to protect a person from spying eyes).

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